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Assistance with Date Formula
Hi there,
After spending the last 45 minutes researching and trying to troubleshoot this myself, I have given up and am now seeking support.
I am trying to create the following statement (written in English)
If cell (call it D2) is not blank AND is today's date or after, then return "YES" otherwise, leave blank.
I am able to independently make these formulas work using =IF(NOT(ISBLANK() and =IF>=TODAY() but I can't seem to make them work together.
Additionally, I'd like to be able to simply create a If cell is not blank, then do the following... And that also seems to fail.
Any help would be most appreciated!
Yes, that is a different situation. An empty cell is treated as "less than" any date. So:
=IF(AND(D2<>"", D2<=TODAY()), "YES", "")
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If D2 is on or after today, it is not blank, so we don't have to check for the cell being not blank:
=IF(D2>=TODAY(), "YES", "")
If you only want to check if the cell is not blank:
=IF(D2<>"", "YES", "")
Hi HansVogelaar thanks so much for your fast response
This seems so obvious and makes sense, but there is one situation where it doesn't seem to work:
If D2 is entirely blank (there's no text/date/etc. entered) it results with "YES" with the formula: =IF(D2 <=TODAY(),"YES",""). Any way to avoid this?
(quick note, I reversed then >= to <= as I had it backwards in my original post)Yes, that is a different situation. An empty cell is treated as "less than" any date. So:
=IF(AND(D2<>"", D2<=TODAY()), "YES", "")
