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Difference in dates in Excel 2007
Cell b1= 25 Sept 2007
Cell b2= 23 Sept 2007 Both cells are formatted as shown With the following formula in B3 (B1-b2) I get answer of 3. I thought the answer would be 2. Can you tell me why oir how to fix it Thanks |
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Difference in dates in Excel 2007
If you format the cells as General, do they have a fractional part? XL
stores date/times as integer/fractions, and calculations depend only on the stored values, not the displayed values. So, for instance, if B1: 25 Sept 2007 23:59 B2: 23 Sept 2007 00:00 B3: =B1-B2 === 2.999305556 which will round to 3 if less than 3 decimals are specified. In article , pcor wrote: Cell b1= 25 Sept 2007 Cell b2= 23 Sept 2007 Both cells are formatted as shown With the following formula in B3 (B1-b2) I get answer of 3. I thought the answer would be 2. Can you tell me why oir how to fix it Thanks |
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Formatted yes but what do the cells contain?
Put this in D1 and copy down to D2 =TEXT(B1,"General") or just format B3 as general -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "pcor" wrote in message ... Cell b1= 25 Sept 2007 Cell b2= 23 Sept 2007 Both cells are formatted as shown With the following formula in B3 (B1-b2) I get answer of 3. I thought the answer would be 2. Can you tell me why oir how to fix it Thanks |
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Difference in dates in Excel 2007
It's 2 in mine. Are you sure you don't have times as well which takes it up
to 2.nnn such that it displays rounded up? -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "pcor" wrote in message ... Cell b1= 25 Sept 2007 Cell b2= 23 Sept 2007 Both cells are formatted as shown With the following formula in B3 (B1-b2) I get answer of 3. I thought the answer would be 2. Can you tell me why oir how to fix it Thanks |
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I guess I misled all of you in B1 I have turns out to ne 25
Sept 2007. My question is this : What do I haveto do to get the answer 2 Thanks "pcor" wrote: Cell b1= 25 Sept 2007 Cell b2= 23 Sept 2007 Both cells are formatted as shown With the following formula in B3 (B1-b2) I get answer of 3. I thought the answer would be 2. Can you tell me why oir how to fix it Thanks |
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How about:
B1: =TODAY() instead? In article , pcor wrote: I guess I misled all of you in B1 I have turns out to ne 25 Sept 2007. My question is this : What do I haveto do to get the answer 2 |
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Use TODAY() instead of NOW() or if you need NOW in some other calculation
use =INT(B1)-INT(B2) -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "pcor" wrote in message ... I guess I misled all of you in B1 I have turns out to ne 25 Sept 2007. My question is this : What do I haveto do to get the answer 2 Thanks "pcor" wrote: Cell b1= 25 Sept 2007 Cell b2= 23 Sept 2007 Both cells are formatted as shown With the following formula in B3 (B1-b2) I get answer of 3. I thought the answer would be 2. Can you tell me why oir how to fix it Thanks |
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That did it real well. Many thanks to all
I really appreciate the good help I can get here. Thanks again "Peo Sjoblom" wrote: Use TODAY() instead of NOW() or if you need NOW in some other calculation use =INT(B1)-INT(B2) -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "pcor" wrote in message ... I guess I misled all of you in B1 I have turns out to ne 25 Sept 2007. My question is this : What do I haveto do to get the answer 2 Thanks "pcor" wrote: Cell b1= 25 Sept 2007 Cell b2= 23 Sept 2007 Both cells are formatted as shown With the following formula in B3 (B1-b2) I get answer of 3. I thought the answer would be 2. Can you tell me why oir how to fix it Thanks |
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