Last Month

PCRIDE

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Any good way to get Last Month as a month number using today's date? Previously I've done =NOW()-32 and that seems to work, but without figuring it out you could run into a day in a month where this fails? Like the first day of the month would take you back 2 months until you hit the 2nd or 3rd day of the new month.
 

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Just this should do it too, shouldn't it?

=MONTH(TODAY())-1
 
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Disadvantage is that there are two calls to the TODAY function but, with that said...

=MONTH(TODAY()-DAY(TODAY()))
 
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What if the current month is January?
:oops: I rushed in there Eric didn't I? (I often do with date questions :))

So an alternative, but no better than yours, might be?
=MONTH(EDATE(TODAY(),-1))
 
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