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Tricky question in Excel If you have a date cell, and want to make other cell contains a fixed day & month, but changeable year matches the 1st cell?

Example: * If the cell "A1" contains:01/01/2001 And you want to fix (06/04) of the same year in the cell "B1", i.e. the value in "B1" should be:06/04/2001 another example: * If the cell "A1" contains:15/09/2015 "B1" will be:06/04/20153rd example: If "A1" is13/02/2009 -> "B1" will be:06/04/2009

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Question added by Mohamed Esam Mohamed Kamel , Financial Analyst , Egyptian Water & Wastewater Regulatory Agency (EWRA)
Date Posted: 2014/03/11
Michelle Cabungan
by Michelle Cabungan , Audit Manager , Deloitte Touche Tohmatu Philippines

Try this formula:   ="6/4/"&YEAR(A1) 

Note: A1 should be the cell that contains your information reference.  So if you're typing at C1, your formula shoud be ="6/4/"&YEAR(C1).

Ashfaque Deshmukh
by Ashfaque Deshmukh , System Administrator , Qatari Diar

=DATE(YEAR(A1),6,4)

Mohamed Esam Mohamed Kamel
by Mohamed Esam Mohamed Kamel , Financial Analyst , Egyptian Water & Wastewater Regulatory Agency (EWRA)

Great answers.

Try this formula:    =DATE(YEAR(A1);4;6)

Any other ideas? :)

Zulfiqar Ali
by Zulfiqar Ali , Data Analyst , Tech Consulting

="6/4/"&YEAR(A1)

Moin Mohamed
by Moin Mohamed , Sr. Purchasing Analyst, , Al-Khafji Joint Operation - KJO

Type in B1

 

="6/4/"&YEAR(A1)

OR

=TEXT(("6/4/"&YEAR(A1)),"dd/mm/yy")

 

Wafa Al Sid
by Wafa Al Sid , Human Resources Director , Grand Cafe - UAE

after you fix the date in the first cell, click on the next cell and put the equation (the first cell +365 or366 if the next year is leap year)

Muhammad Noushad Parathodi
by Muhammad Noushad Parathodi , ACCOUNTANT , Kansons Foods Pvt Ltd

Dear Sir,

 

Your Date column selecting after right button pressing your mouse. when coming some details select the format Cell After selecting the Text. Which one you want here come to that

محمد رشدى محمد
by محمد رشدى محمد , Internal auditor , Intersect For Contracting

I Agreed with most answers

Sameer Khan
by Sameer Khan , Financial Accountant , Centro Salama by Rotana

="6/4/"&YEAR(A1)

simple as it

georgei assi
by georgei assi , مدير حسابات , المجموعة السورية

Agreed with colleagues answers

Syed Tanveer Ali
by Syed Tanveer Ali , Account Manager , Myrkott Animation Studio

="6/4/ "&YEAR(A1)

 

or using Concatenate

 

=CONCATENATE("6","/",4,"/",YEAR(A1))

 OR

=CONCATENATE("6","/","April","/",YEAR(A1))

also Making a Format of the Cell Use CTRL+1 and format date accordindly

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