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Grouping by dates in Excel?
How do you group dates that fall within specific date ranges? Is it by formula or by grouping by month, but the grouping won't work if you want an odd date range like from the 9th of one month to the 10th of the next month.
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Hi MMH11
There are many ways to handle your query, If you have single range of date, then I would recommend you using IF function (You can add multiple criteria in IF function, but formula will become too complex). I'm attaching Excel Workbook with few examples with IF , VLOOKUP & XLOOKUP.
Hope this might be helpful.
Regards, Faraz Shaikh | MCT, MIE, MOS Master, Excel Expert | www.ExcelExciting.com
ExcelExciting Sorry, I don't think I was very clear in my question.
I have a list of employees with their work dates in a given year. I want to insert a formula that indicates which period they fall in but it has to be a date from 15th to 14th of following month. So if the date is 01/05/2020 it should fall in the period 12/15/2019-01/14/2020. What formula would do this?
Employee Work Date PERIOD
John 01/05/2020 12/15/2019-01/14/2020
John 01/15/2020 01/15/2020-02/14/2020
John 02/05/2020 01/15/2020-02/14/2020
John 03/06/2020 02/15/2020-03/14/2020MMH11 Alternatively, use one of the solutions in the attached workbook. The first one determines both the start and the end of the period, based on the start day (15 in your case). It uses the fairly neat EOMONTH function. The second option combines start and end of the period into one text string.
Cell B1 contains the start day of your period and I gave it the name "from".
