I want to forcast certain dates based on a persons age. For example, my
daughter was born on 11-5-96. I want to forcast her 8th, 12th, and 18th
birthday. I am wanting to do this for a hundred or so youth at our church.
So, I put in the following =DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1)) in A1. The
problem I have is I have an incorrect date in A1 until a date is entered.
Excel wants to put in 31-Dec-07 if B1 is blank. How can I keep A1 blank until
I have entered B1 without entering it all in one at a time, the whole of
column A will have the same equation with regards to its row. I am just new
to Excel and I'm not sure what all options or tools are available to me. Any
Help?

try
=if(or(b1="",b1=" "),"",yourformula)
or
if(len(b1)<2,"",yourformula)

--
Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"DCZ" wrote in message
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I want to forcast certain dates based on a persons age. For example, my
daughter was born on 11-5-96. I want to forcast her 8th, 12th, and 18th
birthday. I am wanting to do this for a hundred or so youth at our church.
So, I put in the following =DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1)) in A1. The
problem I have is I have an incorrect date in A1 until a date is entered.
Excel wants to put in 31-Dec-07 if B1 is blank. How can I keep A1 blank
until
I have entered B1 without entering it all in one at a time, the whole of
column A will have the same equation with regards to its row. I am just
new
to Excel and I'm not sure what all options or tools are available to me.
Any
Help?

Try this:

=IF(B1="","",DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1))

HTH,
Elkar


"DCZ" wrote:

I want to forcast certain dates based on a persons age. For example, my
daughter was born on 11-5-96. I want to forcast her 8th, 12th, and 18th
birthday. I am wanting to do this for a hundred or so youth at our church.
So, I put in the following =DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1)) in A1. The
problem I have is I have an incorrect date in A1 until a date is entered.
Excel wants to put in 31-Dec-07 if B1 is blank. How can I keep A1 blank until
I have entered B1 without entering it all in one at a time, the whole of
column A will have the same equation with regards to its row. I am just new
to Excel and I'm not sure what all options or tools are available to me. Any
Help?

Elkar and Sandy, Dead on! That was exactly what I was after. Thank you so much.
DCZ

"Elkar" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(B1="","",DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1))

HTH,
Elkar


"DCZ" wrote:

I want to forcast certain dates based on a persons age. For example, my
daughter was born on 11-5-96. I want to forcast her 8th, 12th, and 18th
birthday. I am wanting to do this for a hundred or so youth at our church.
So, I put in the following =DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1)) in A1. The
problem I have is I have an incorrect date in A1 until a date is entered.
Excel wants to put in 31-Dec-07 if B1 is blank. How can I keep A1 blank until
I have entered B1 without entering it all in one at a time, the whole of
column A will have the same equation with regards to its row. I am just new
to Excel and I'm not sure what all options or tools are available to me. Any
Help?

If you are using this just be sure you don't inadvertently touch the
spacebar

--
Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"DCZ" wrote in message
...
Elkar and Sandy, Dead on! That was exactly what I was after. Thank you so
much.
DCZ

"Elkar" wrote:

Try this:

=IF(B1="","",DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1))

HTH,
Elkar


"DCZ" wrote:

I want to forcast certain dates based on a persons age. For example, my
daughter was born on 11-5-96. I want to forcast her 8th, 12th, and 18th
birthday. I am wanting to do this for a hundred or so youth at our
church.
So, I put in the following =DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1)) in A1.
The
problem I have is I have an incorrect date in A1 until a date is
entered.
Excel wants to put in 31-Dec-07 if B1 is blank. How can I keep A1 blank
until
I have entered B1 without entering it all in one at a time, the whole
of
column A will have the same equation with regards to its row. I am just
new
to Excel and I'm not sure what all options or tools are available to
me. Any
Help?

If B1 is empty Excel values it as zero. Date zero to Excel is 00 - Jan -
1900 so eight years on from that is 00 - Jan - 1908. Of course there is no
day 00 in Jan 1900 so Excel gives you the day before 1/1/1900 which is 31 -
Dec - 1907

Now to cure this add a test for an empty cell:

=IF(B1="","",DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1)))

--
HTH

Sandy

with @tiscali.co.uk


"DCZ" wrote in message
...
I want to forcast certain dates based on a persons age. For example, my
daughter was born on 11-5-96. I want to forcast her 8th, 12th, and 18th
birthday. I am wanting to do this for a hundred or so youth at our church.
So, I put in the following =DATE(YEAR(B1)+8,MONTH(B1),DAY(B1)) in A1. The
problem I have is I have an incorrect date in A1 until a date is entered.
Excel wants to put in 31-Dec-07 if B1 is blank. How can I keep A1 blank
until
I have entered B1 without entering it all in one at a time, the whole of
column A will have the same equation with regards to its row. I am just
new
to Excel and I'm not sure what all options or tools are available to me.
Any
Help?