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    Days in this Quarter

    Hi Excel gurus,

    I'm new to the forum, so firstly Hi! I'm looking for a better solution to a problem that I have a somewhat inelegant formula for...

    I'm trying to find out, for an arbitrary date, how many days have gone in the current quarter e.g. today (7th April) would return the result "7" because it's the 7th day of Q2. The solution I fudged together is...

    "=TODAY()-DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),CHOOSE(ROUNDUP(MONTH(TODAY())/3,0),1,4,7,10),1)+1"

    ... which works but is long winded and seems a bit rubbish. Could anyone suggest improvements?

    Many thanks in advance,
    Dave

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    Re: Days in this Quarter

    You can decide if it's an improvement:

    =TODAY()-DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),LOOKUP(MONTH(TODAY()),{1,4,7,10},{1,4,7,10}),1)+1

    or

    =TODAY()-DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),CHOOSE(MONTH(TODAY()),1,1,1,4,4,4,7,7,7,10,10,10),1)+1
    which eliminates the ROUNDUP() and division calculations from your original formula
    Last edited by Cutter; 04-12-2011 at 12:36 PM.

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    Re: Days in this Quarter

    Another option:
    =TODAY()-DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),FLOOR(MONTH(TODAY())-1,3)+1,1)

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    Re: Days in this Quarter

    One more

    =TODAY()-EDATE(DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),1,1),3*INT((MONTH(TODAY())-1)/3))+1

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    Re: Days in this Quarter

    With today's date in A2 try

    =A2-LOOKUP(A2,DATE(YEAR(A2),{1,4,7,10},1))+1
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