Determine if a month falls between two dates.

[Robert R]

Hello, I have been tasked with trying to do the following

Column A - Date
column B -Date

A will always be earlier than B

columns C-N will be labeled months Jan-Dec

What I need to do is determine if the date between column A and B includes
the given month in column C - N and return a value of X.

ie...
A B C D E F
Jan Feb Mar Apr
1/1/10 3/12/10 X X X blank

I can then count the X values.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[T. Valko]

Column A - Date

column B -Date
A will always be earlier than B

Are the dates all within the same year? Will you ever have dates like this:

A2 = 6/25/2010
B2 = 1/12/2011

 

[Fred Smith]

I would do this in two steps:
1. Put actual dates in C1 to N1. Use a format of "mmm" which will display
the 3-character month name.
2. To get the X's, use:
=if(and(month(c$1)>=month($a2),month(c$1)<=month($b2)),"X","")

Regards,
Fred

 

[Robert R]

T. Valko,

Actually, the dates should always be in the same year

 

[T. Valko]

Fred's suggestion will work.

Here's another method that is basically the same but doesn't require the
column headers to be dates.

C1:N1 = month names as text entries: Jan, Feb, Mar, ... Dec

A2:B2 = some dates

Enter this formula in C2 and copy across to N2:

=IF(AND(COLUMNS($C2:C2)>=MONTH($A2),COLUMNS($C2:C2)<=MONTH($B2)),"X","")