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From: Papa Jonah on 5 Mar 2010 17:38
Thanks David. I don't understand your explanation why I should get what I
got - especially since the other cells did not add a year.
But your suggestion worked beautifully. The reason I didn't do that before
is I didn't figure it out!

Thanks

"David Biddulph" wrote:

> If H15 is 31/1/10, MONTH will return 12, you've then added 2 to make it 14,
> hence 31/1/11 sounds like the answer you would expect from that formula.
>
> I'm not sure why you are using =DATE(YEAR(H15),MONTH(H15-DAY(H15))+2,)
> Why not =DATE(YEAR(H15),MONTH(H15)+1,0) ?
> --
> David Biddulph
>
>
> "Papa Jonah" <PapaJonah(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3E34CEAB-EB47-4BD1-8291-E866C6FA98B9(a)microsoft.com...
> > In cells H15 and H36 I have 10/31/09 and 1/31/10 respectively.
> > In J 15 and J36 I have the following formula:
> >
> > =DATE(YEAR(H15),MONTH(H15-DAY(H15))+2,)
> > Cell J36 has With H36 instead of H15.
> > The intent is to identify the last date of the month identified in column
> > H.
> >
> > However, the results are:
> > H J
> > 10/31/09 10/31/09 (This worked)
> > 1/31/10 1/31/11 (This added a whole year)
> >
> > The equation seems to work every where unless the date in column H is in
> > January.
> >
> > Column L does something similar to calculate the end of the subsequent
> > month. It works in all cases. The formula I used for that is:
> > =DATE(YEAR(H36),MONTH(H36-DAY(H36)+2)+2,)
> >
> > Why isn't the first formula working in every case?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Papa J
>
>
> .
>
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