Enter a day number, and show day/month/year from another cell

MKB

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Hi,

I’m getting tired of entering dates into a spreadsheet. I have a master date for each month (example: 1/1/2020) and want to create a formula so as I enter 5, the cell with the formula will show 5/1/2020 - relevant to the month/year of the master cell.

I tried the DATE formula but could only get it to work for January of current year, and similarly linking to a master cell returned a num error. I don’t think that’s the right approach. Any tips please?

Thanks
 

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Is this the sort of thing you mean? If not, more details & examples & layout please.

Master date is in E1
Enter day in column D, formula in E2 is copied down.

Excel Workbook
DE
11/01/2020
255/01/2020
32525/01/2020
Date
 
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