Quarter Dates

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I have a column A which can have different dates.
As


July 07
Feb 08
Apr 08
May 08
Oct 08
Nov 09

In column B I would like to have dates that correspond to the quarterly
periods Dec, March,
June,September.

For example in column B, I would like to see

June 07
March 08
march 08
June 08 etc.

Is there a formula that could be applied to column B to get the dates
as above.

Thanks
 
Hi

Try entering in B1
=TEXT(DATE(YEAR(A1),(INT((MONTH(A1)-1)/3)+1)*3,1),"mmm yy")
and copy down
 
I think he wants

=DATE(YEAR(A1),(INT((MONTH(A1)-4)/3)+1)*3,1)

formatted as mmm-yy

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Bob Phillips

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Bob, I had thought about -4 rather than -1, but his example of
Jul 07 Jun 07
Feb 08 Mar 08
etc.

rather threw all options, so I had decided his examples were not real.

You are probably correct though, and he may just have missed out one of
his months in the second set of values
 
If your dates are real dates then you may want to consider a Pivot table
which will group into Quarters in a heartbeat. All depends on your data
really, but once you've been there you won't look back.
 
Thanks guys. But the examples are real. What I wanted is if there is a
month which falls outside the designated quarter months, then it should
revert back to one of the quarter months> So you could have any set of
scenarios of dates falling outside the quarter months. For example if
the date is in july, or august it should revert back to either June or
september. Or if the date is january or February it should revert back
to either December or March as quarter period.

This is an acutal scenario.
 
What is the relevance of an actual scenario? What Roger and I gave applies
to test data, real data, imaginary data, etc. They are solutions to a
problem, so they either work or they don't. If they do, great, if they
don't, in what way?

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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Hi
For example if the date is in july, or august it should revert back to
either June or september
Click to expand...
You can only have one
- it is either going back to the previous quarter date which Bob's
solution provides
or
- it goes forward to the next quarter date, which my solution provides

July, August and September can all be treated as June, or they can all
be treated as September
 
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