Trying to create repeating dates and then sort column by date

[lizabright]

Hi, I am trying to create a to-do list. I want to be able to put in tasks
and meetings that happen every week. At first I was putting a date 2/1/2005
(A24) + 7 and then dragging down. This worked great until I sorted by date
and then all the dates were screwed up.

I tried labeling the data, but then I can't drag down in a plus 7 format.
Is there any formula that will use a fixed date but keep adding in increments
of 7?

sorry this isn't a very coherent question.

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

Assuming you want to sort them descending since they already are sorted
ascending,
copy them, then do edit>paste special as values in place.

 

[lizabright]

no, what I want to do is to create a list of dates that are all the next week

so 2/14/2005 B2
2/21/2005 B2+7
2/28/2005 B3+7
3/7/2005 B4+7

I was creating them using a formula A2 2/14/2005+7 and then dragging down.

this worked great, but then when I sorted ALL dates (so this one task would
be merged with all other items on to do list), the formula was using the new
A2 and the date was off.

sorry, I am feeling that this is not workable. I was hoping that there
would be a formula that would recognize a static value (DATE) and keep
multiplying by degrees of seven and that seems nuts. I am just going to
hand type in all the dates.

I know, get Microsoft Project, right? but my office is tight.

Thanks so much though! cheers.