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

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.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:29:01 -0700, "Aussie CPA"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>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.
>

I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but perhaps:

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


--ron

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

"Aussie CPA" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
>

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:46:31 -0400, "Biff" <[email protected]> wrote:

>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)))
>


How does that formula differ from:

=EDATE(A1,1)

?????


--ron

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.

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 19:29:01 -0700, "Aussie CPA"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>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.
>

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

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

"Ron Rosenfeld" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:46:31 -0400, "Biff" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>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)))
>>
>
>
> How does that formula differ from:
>
> =EDATE(A1,1)
>
> ?????
>
>
> --ron

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:16:01 -0400, "Biff" <[email protected]> wrote:

>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.

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