Help with Text and Dates

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How can we use the Text's Weekly Montly Quarterly and Yearly to calculate and show a date for our new Maintenance. For example if our Date is 11/11/05 and we ad the Text Monthly we should have as our NEW date of Maintenance 12/11/05. We are trying to use the Text's in a list as well.


Cell A1 11/11/05
Cell A2 (list of text ie Weekly, Monthly, quarterly Yearly)
Cell A3 The result shown in ddmmyyyy format

So far we have Define the Text as Numerical values but end up with Errors when using the A3 =SUM(A2+A1) formula


Thanks for any help
 

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This is one way.

=A1+IF(B1="Weekly",7,IF(B1="Monthly",30,IF(B1="Quarterly",90,IF(B1="Yearly",365,0))))
 
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Thanks! This works GREAT , When importing this sheet into ACCESS will these functions work as well?

Amac

:lol:
 
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If you *import* into Access cells containing formulas become values. Access does not have cells with formulas, only text or numbers etc.

It is possible to do something similar in Access, but you would need to set up an Update Query and run it periodically.
 
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Thanks I'll Try

Being New to Acces I will your suggestion, I know I have to read up on Access a bit to get my program to run as it did in Excel
Thanks Again
 
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Hi amac:

In addition to BrianB's fine contribution, try the following ...

=IF(B2="Weekly",A2+7,IF(B2="Monthly",EDATE(A2,1),IF(B2="Quarterly",EDATE(A2,3),IF(B2="Yearly",EDATE(A2,12),0))))

this formula will take account for non 30_day months and non 365_day years.
 
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Thanks I'll Try

Thanks for the Information I will definitly try that as well. This will help greatly with our Maintenance Program...
 
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