updating date formulas

[MissAJ]

I am a teacher using Excel 2003 and Windows XP.

What's the most efficient way for me to make (and then yearly edit) an IF formula that works in a semi-quarterly grade report to insert the right beginning and ending dates for the report depending on what the present date is? I put a =NOW() formula in A1 to refer to. These are the formulas I used last year.

=IF(A$1<38624,"From August 29, 2005",(IF(A$1<38694,"From October 31, 2005",(IF(A$1<38764,"From January 16, 2006",(IF(A$1<38828,"From March 20, 2006","")))))))

=IF(A$1<38624,"To September 23, 2005",(IF(A$1<38694,"To December 2, 2005",(IF(A$1<38764,"To February 10, 2006",(IF(A$1<38828,"To April 14, 2006",$B$248)))))))

 

[GorD]

I would create a lookup table of dates and use lookup formulas to return the dates.

Something like this - set up your own period start and ends obviously

Hope it helps

Book1
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
1	05/05/2006
2
3
4	PERIOD			Start Date	End Date	Start Text	End Text
5	From Apr, 01,2006	to Jun 30 2006		01/01/2006	31/03/2006	From Jan 01 2006	to Mar 31 2006
6				01/04/2006	30/06/2006	From Apr, 01,2006	to Jun 30 2006
7
8				Continue date peiods down
9
10
Sheet1

 

[MissAJ]

Thank you for your help. Do you mean that the yellow area is the look up table and that the formulas in A5 and B5 should be put in my grade reports?

 

[GorD]

Thats right you could have the lookup formulas in a single cell if you wanted rather than the two I've used.

 

[MissAJ]

Thanks very much! It works well!

 

[GorD]

Good I'm glad - post back if you need anything else