please help me add 1, 2 or 3 years to a date in Excel (O365)

[stevewest]

Hi All

I have a spreadsheet with dates in it that i would like to add either 1, 2 or 3 years to. There is a cell that lists if the customer bought a 1, 2 or 3 year licence so i need the formula to check that cell and then add the number of years.

I started with this =DATE(YEAR(F2)+1,MONTH(F2),DAY(F2)) but i can't make a formula that checks a cell and then adds that number of years.

Any help or advice would be most welcome. Thank you

 

[Joe4]

Welcome to the Board!

You have practically done it. Just replace the "1" with a cell reference (where you are storing the number of years).
If that was A1, it would look like:

[COLOR=#333333]=DATE(YEAR(F2)+[/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000][B]A1[/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#333333],MONTH(F2),DAY(F2))[/COLOR]

 

[Fluff]

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[Scott Huish]

Or you could just use EDATE, where A1 contains the number of years you want to add:
=EDATE(F2,12*A1)

Format as date.

 

[Zenwood]

Try =F2+(A2*365.25)

 

[Joe4]

Try =F2+(A2*365.25)

I would not recommend that approach, as it could lead to inaccurate results, and introduces an unintended time component.

For example, enter you have date 1/1/2018 in F2 and 1 in A2, you will get:
1/1/2019 6:00 AM

Note the time component. That is because date and times are stored as numbers, specifically the number of days since 1/0/1900, and time is represented as fractions of one day.
So .25 is one-fourth of one day. Since there are 24 hours in a day, that would translate to 6:00 AM

Also, consider what happens if you date span contains a leap year, i.e. F2 is 1/1/2016 and A2 is 1.
That formula would return:
12/31/2016 6:00 AM

Not only does it contain an unwanted time piece, but it actually is not the correct day.