Alternative system to primitive +28 function

[pharmerjoe7]

I've attached a file here which is a smaller representation how we currently do things. So we have a huge list of customers from different branches, which have a data entry date , dispatch date (which is 2 working days after) and delivery date (which is the next day after the dispatch date).
Currently, we just have a another 2 sets of these same columns which do the simple (=C1 +28) formula, to add 28 days to the first set. The aim of this is to show the next dates the customers order will be dispatched.
And once we run paste these 3 months, I simple select the dates in columns C, D and E and add 28 days with paste Special - Add

2 Things:

(1) is there some better system we could use? The only date which is used often on our end is the dispatch date.
So is there a way of selecting a month and year, and the sheet automatically generates the corresponding dispatch dates for that time frame?

(2) We also need to create a dispatch list each day, which is a list (organised by branch number) of all patients which have a dispatch date which falls on that particular day. Big potential here for human error if its just someone copying and pasting by hand.

I tried to automate that process here: http://www.excelforum.com/excel-prog...hird-cell.html

But seems a long winded way of doing something which could be a lot simpler? Any ideas anyone can think of?

[dflak]

I looked at this the other day. I notice nobody has jumped on it. Can you provide a bit more information? I'm having an issue seeing exactly what the problem is.

[FDibbins]

Bumping to get this back into focus for the OP again