1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!-- 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir *********************************************************************** 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 22*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 23*cdf0e10cSrcweir * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 24*cdf0e10cSrcweir * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 25*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 26*cdf0e10cSrcweir * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************ 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir --> 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir <helpdocument version="1.0"> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textscalc01func_edatexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">EDATE</title> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/scalc/01/func_edate.xhp</filename> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3151184"><bookmark_value>EDATE function</bookmark_value> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/SC_HID_AAI_FUNC_EDATE" id="bm_id3150761" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151184" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="213"><variable id="edate"><link href="text/scalc/01/func_edate.xhp">EDATE</link> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir</variable></paragraph> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150880" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="214"><ahelp hid="HID_AAI_FUNC_EDATE">The result is a date which is a number of m<emph>onths</emph> away from the <emph>start date</emph>. Only months are considered; days are not used for calculation.</ahelp></paragraph> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154647" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="215">Syntax</paragraph> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153212" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="216">EDATE(StartDate; Months)</paragraph> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146860" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="217"> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>StartDate</emph> is a date.</paragraph> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152929" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="218"> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>Months</emph> is the number of months before (negative) or after (positive) the start date.</paragraph> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151289" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="219">Example</paragraph> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155845" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="220">What date is one month prior to 3.31.2001?</paragraph> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155999" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="221"> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir<item type="input">=EDATE(3.31.2001;-1)</item> returns 2.28.2001.</paragraph> 58*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 59*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 60