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Hello, 

I need to create a formula for a cell involving number of days between dates.

First cell - counts the number of days before and after due date of action from today.
Same cell stops counting the days when a date of action is entered in  another cell.

The main objective is to count how many days it has taken to make an action.


Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks.

TrowaD · Accepted Answer

Hi Diestra,

Using your example, I put 17-Mar-16  in B2, 01-Mar-16 in A3, formula for Days to/from Due Date in B3 and Date done in C3.

Formula would then be:
=IF(C3="",A3-B1,A3-C3)

So if Date done is not entered (which is what "" means), then the report date (17-Mar-16 in B1) will be subtracted from Due date (01-Mar-16 in A3). 
But if Date done has been entered then, the Date done will be subtracted from the Due date.

For Report date you will use =TODAY(), which will change every day and thus Days to/from Due Date will change. For Date done you will manually input date (fixed value), thus the Days to/from Due Date will remain the same once Date done is entered.

Best regards,
Trowa
 
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TrowaD · Answer

Hi Diestra,

You mean like this?:
=IF([Cell with date of action]="", today()-[cell with date], [Cell with date of action] - [cell with date])

Where the text between [] is a cell reference.

Best regards,
Trowa

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