Date issue

[Patrick C. Simonds]

I need to construct a formula which will subtract 1 month from the previous
month and return the first day of the preceding month.

Example:
A1 value is 24 April, I want A2's value to be 1 March

 

[David Biddulph]

Why not =DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1)-1,1) ?

[That fits your example, but not your description.
From your description, the previous month is March, subtract one month would
give February, and the first day of the preceding month would be 1 January.
If that's what you want, use -3 instead of -1.]

 

[Roger Govier]

Hi Patrick

Try
=DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1)-1,1)

 

[T. Valko]

Try this:

=DATE(YEAR(A2),MONTH(A2)-1,1)

 

[Michael]

You can also try this:

=EOMONTH(A1,-1)-30

 

[Rick Rothstein]

How about this?

=A1-DAY(A1)-DAY(A1-DAY(A1))+1

 

[Shane Devenshire]

Hi,

Try

=EOMONTH(A1,-2)+1

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