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    Find closest date to today in a row of dates

    Hi all,

    I have a bunch of key dates (business reviews) that span a year or so that are held in a row (AC:CN). In a summary page I would like to return the nearest date to todays date. This way the team will always know what date the next review is. (I cannot use a calendar for this!!)

    I hope you can help!

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    Re: Find closest date to today in a row of dates

    The first comming (next) day or (earlier) day?

    I think you need the next day.

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    Re: Find closest date to today in a row of dates

    I use something like this that may convert to what you want

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    So column D:D would be what you want to return and column A:A would be where you are searching...

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    Re: Find closest date to today in a row of dates

    Assuming that the dates arranged in increasing order;
    Assuming that the dates are in one row, AC1:CN1 for example:

    =INDEX(AC1:CN1, MATCH( TODAY(), AC1:CN1, 1) +1)

    Note that if there is a review "today" it will display the review after today.

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    Re: Find closest date to today in a row of dates

    Thank you so much (all of you that responded). Thanks Ben_hensel - perfect!

    Quote Originally Posted by ben_hensel View Post
    Assuming that the dates arranged in increasing order;
    Assuming that the dates are in one row, AC1:CN1 for example:

    =INDEX(AC1:CN1, MATCH( TODAY(), AC1:CN1, 1) +1)

    Note that if there is a review "today" it will display the review after today.

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