Auto Sort Birthdates

[Tabulah]

Hello

I am hoping someone may be able to help me. I have a list of birthdates and in my job, I have to purchase gifts for everyone's birthday. Ideally, I like to do this 3 weeks before the birthday comes up to give me time to buy the gift and get it sent to them in good time.

It would help me so much if each time I open my birthday excel spreadsheet, it automatically sorts the birthday list to show the birthdays in order of 3 weeks before the date of the actual birthday. Do you think there is a way to make this happen? I wondered if there was a formula that could reference todays date by using the =TODAY() formula for example and then automatically sort the list that way? If the birthday has passed and I have missed it, it can just go back to the bottom of the list and I can use a conditional format to highlight the cell in red or something so its a warning that it has passed and I've missed it.

I should also add, I am a novice at excel (would love to get better and am trying to learn as I go!) I have not used macros before. I think I could work out how to use the macro function though (if it were necessary and there was a macro to run to do this task?!) If not, I can copy and paste a formula of course

I do hope that all makes sense and thank you in advance for helping if you can, it would be much appreciated.

 

[queuesmef]

1. Use Outlook calendar with 3 week reminder notices 2. Excel add a column for Notice, in the cells below this, make a formula referencing the cell that has the Birthday.....My data - the birthDate, started in cell C4 - I used formula =DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(C4),DAY(C4))-90 ; you may need to modify for what cell your data is in!