Convert SERIAL date back into dd/mm/yy format?

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Aussie CPA

I'm wanting to use the edate function.
Does anyone know how I can convert the edate answer back into dd/mm/yyyy in
the cell contents rather than with formatting.
 
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Ron Rosenfeld

I'm wanting to use the edate function.
Does anyone know how I can convert the edate answer back into dd/mm/yyyy in
the cell contents rather than with formatting.
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but perhaps:

=TEXT(EDATE(A1,1),"dd/mm/yyyy")


--ron
 
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Biff

Hi!

This will keep the date numeric: (if you need to do further calcs)

=DATE(YEAR(EDATE(A1,1)),MONTH(EDATE(A1,1)),DAY(EDATE(A1,1)))

This will return a TEXT string:

=TEXT(EDATE(A1,1),"dd/mm/yyyy")

Biff
 
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Ron Rosenfeld

Hi!

This will keep the date numeric: (if you need to do further calcs)

=DATE(YEAR(EDATE(A1,1)),MONTH(EDATE(A1,1)),DAY(EDATE(A1,1)))
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How does that formula differ from:

=EDATE(A1,1)

?????


--ron
 
M

Myrna Larson

I am curious. Why do you want text in the cell rather than a formatted date?
If you do this, you can not do further date arithmetic with the value unless
you use the DATEVALUE function.
 
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Biff

=DATE(YEAR(EDATE(A1,1)),MONTH(EDATE(A1,1)),DAY(EDATE(A1,1)))
How does that formula differ from:
=EDATE(A1,1)
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It doesn't as far as the value returned.

The longer redundant formula will return the auto formatted value versus
Edate returning the serial date. I wasn't sure about what the OP was really
asking for. I read that maybe for some reason they couldn't format the
result of Edate. That's why I also included the Text function.

Biff
 
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Ron Rosenfeld

It doesn't as far as the value returned.

The longer redundant formula will return the auto formatted value versus
Edate returning the serial date. I wasn't sure about what the OP was really
asking for. I read that maybe for some reason they couldn't format the
result of Edate. That's why I also included the Text function.
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That autoformatting could be handy. I wonder why EDATE doesn't autoformat
whereas the DATE function does. Possibly an affect of native code vs an
add-in.
--ron
 
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