Question

I got a table like this:

    A             B             C     
----------    ----------    ----------
12.10.2005    12.10.2006        1
12.10.2005    12.10.2010        2
12.10.2005    12.10.2010        3
12.10.2005    12.10.2010        4
12.10.2005    12.10.2010        5
12.10.2005    12.10.2012        6
12.10.2005    12.10.2012        7
12.10.2005    12.10.2018        8
12.10.2005    12.10.2020        9
12.10.2005    12.10.2025        10
12.10.2005    12.10.2026        11

and i want to findout if this date 01.05.2012 included between any dates in each row of A – B..

and if any match found then i’d like to get the value at same row’s C column..

so the result should be:

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

so far i’ve done this:

=IF(A1:A11<=D1>=B1:B11; "There is a result." ;"No proper answer found.")

i still cant find a way to get the value at C in formula so what should i add this formula to achive that?

Answer 1

You’ll have to be sure this uses the right date formats, but you can do the following:

Use another 2 columns (“E” and “F”) for these formulae: =VALUE(LEFT(A1,2)&"/"&MID(A1,4,2)&"/"&RIGHT(A1,4))
=VALUE(LEFT(B1,2)&"/"&MID(B1,4,2)&"/"&RIGHT(B1,4))

They convert dates in A1/B1 to the Excel date format (and return the corresponding serial number).

You can convert your 01.05.2012 to a serial number, as well, for comparing. We’ll put this serial number in $G$1

In a third column, you can use the formula: =AND(E1<=$G$1,$G$1<=F1) (the serial number in $G$1 is greater than the serial in Column “E” (date in “A”) and less than the serial in Column “F” (date in “B”)).