formulation of an expiry summary

[croberts]

I am trying to create a summary sheet in my workbook which will show the earliest expiry dates for a particular item. The dates are entered into other worksheets in the workbook and are linked to the summary worksheet, however the problem that I am finding is that if no data (date) is entered into a cell under a particular heading on one of the other worksheets, it is coming up on the summary sheet as Jan-00. How do I get rid of this ?

The next problem is that I need a formula that will recognise the earliest expiry date. I have tried the =MIN but because of the current problem of it reading no data as Jan-00 it will always read this as the earliest expiry rather than the actual data entered. What can I do, or what formula is needed to fix this.


Can you please help me with this, as I am lost for an answer from anyone else.

[Max]

Instead of using links like: =Sheet1!A1
put it as: =IF(Sheet1!A1="","",Sheet1!A1)
That should hopefully clear up both issues
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> I am trying to create a summary sheet in my workbook which
> will show the earliest expiry dates for a particular item. The dates
> are entered into other worksheets in the workbook and are linked to the
> summary worksheet, however the problem that I am finding is that if no
> data (date) is entered into a cell under a particular heading on one
> of the other worksheets, it is coming up on the summary sheet as
> Jan-00. How do I get rid of this ?
>
> The next problem is that I need a formula that will recognise the
> earliest expiry date. I have tried the =MIN but because of the current
> problem of it reading no data as Jan-00 it will always read this as the
> earliest expiry rather than the actual data entered. What can I do, or
> what formula is needed to fix this.
>
>
> Can you please help me with this, as I am lost for an answer from
> anyone else.
>
>
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