birthdays - determining when due

[Guest]

please can someone help me with the following

i wish to find out from a list of students names and dob, when a students
birthday is due

example
column 1 column 2
name dob
fred smith 12/1/1985

i need a formula to tell me whos birhtday is due in a specific month and on
what date so i can send out a card

many thanks

 

[Hank Scorpio]

please can someone help me with the following

i wish to find out from a list of students names and dob, when a students
birthday is due

example
column 1 column 2
name dob
fred smith 12/1/1985

i need a formula to tell me whos birhtday is due in a specific month and on
what date so i can send out a card

I'm not quite sure whether I understand your question, but if I do the
following may do what you want:
In column 3 (C), put the formula =MONTH(B1)
In column 4 (D), put =DAY(B1)

Now go to Data menu -> Filter -> Autofilter.

You can select the month that you want from column C. Column D will
then show you the dates on which birthdays occur for that month.

(There are other ways of doing this, but the method above makes the
results nice and obvious.)

 

[Guest]

In cell C2, you can use the formula (assuming the birthdate is cell B2)
=TEXT(B2,"MM/DD"), then copy your formula down and sort.

 

[Ltat42a]

By doing these two examples duplicates the birthdate. Couldn't you
highlight all the names and birthdates and sort by the birthdate -
either ascending or descending?

I'm using a spreadsheet that determines everybody's time on the job by
their hire date. I first sorted the entire list by hire date, then used
the following forumla to determine how long they have been employed -

=DATEDIF(E3,TODAY(),"m")/12
(E3 contains the first person's hire date)
Put this formula in a cell adjacent to the birthdate column, then copy
down.

Everytime I open this spreadsheet, this will auto update their years of
service (person with the most number of years at the top).

 

[Guest]

Your approach is good at finding length of service (or age), but does not
sort by month/day of birth. In this given case, it is not a question of a
person's age, but of when their birthday is in order from Jan 1 to Dec 31.
I'm at a loss as to how your suggestion provides this information.