Add months with EDATE and EOMONTH
Add or subtract whole months with EDATE, and jump to the end of a month with EOMONTH, for renewals, deadlines and month-end billing.
In this lesson
=EDATE(date, months): the same day, that many months later.- When the day doesn't exist (Jan 31 + 1 month), EDATE uses the last day of the month: 2/28.
=EOMONTH(date, months): the last day of the month, that many months away.
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Where it sits in Dates and times
- How dates really work8 min
- TODAY and NOW10 min
- DATE, YEAR, MONTH and DAY9 min
- Days between two dates9 min
- Add months with EDATE and EOMONTHThis lesson10 min
- Working days with NETWORKDAYS and WORKDAY12 min
The steps
10 steps: 4 explanations, 4 Do this, 2 questions, then Your turn.
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Delete repeated rows from a merged list, and choose which columns decide what counts as a duplicate.
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