Auto populate same date, next coming year

Hello Excel Community!

I keep finding something SIMILAR to what I need, but not exactly.

I have a list of contract dates in oldest to newest order. I need excel to automatically find the same date for the next coming year that is NOT in the past.

For example: I have a contract end date on 11/11/2020. I know that I can simply add 12 months to it with the EDATE formula, but that would be 11/11/2021. I need Excel to find the next 11/11 that is not already passed. Is this possible?

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mathetes
May 20, 2022
allieZ

Here's a quick and dirty formula. If you need something more sophisticated, come back with the details. A3 in this example is the prior contract end date.
=IF(A3+365.25>TODAY(),A3+365.25,DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(A3),DAY(A3)))

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mathetes
Silver Contributor
May 20, 2022
allieZ

Here's a quick and dirty formula. If you need something more sophisticated, come back with the details. A3 in this example is the prior contract end date.
=IF(A3+365.25>TODAY(),A3+365.25,DATE(YEAR(TODAY()),MONTH(A3),DAY(A3)))
- allieZ
  Copper Contributor
  May 20, 2022
  I think this works perfectly! Took a second to really understand how this formula is working, but I think i got it.
  Thank you!
  - mathetes
    Silver Contributor
    May 20, 2022
    Basically it says
    IF the date created when you add 365.25** to A3 is greater than today, then use that date because it is in the future,
    ELSE, create a date using today's year and the month and day from A3.
    
    **To account for leap years, that was a way I used to do it when writing programs in Basic, 50 years ago.

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Auto populate same date, next coming year

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