Hello Ahmet, Please try this formula,
=IF(MOD((A1-1),12)=0,12,MOD((A1-1),12)) where A1 is the active cell. Regards, Rajesh Kunder On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Ahmet Yalcin <ahmetyalc...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hello You Helpful People :) > > My question today is: > > For example I use vlookup to get a month "4" (April) from a database. At > this report sheet I also want to show the previous 4 months. What I do here > is subtract 1 from April, to find March and subtract 2 to find February, > etc.. How can I form my formula that when the month reaches 1 (January) and > when I subtract 1 it should give me 12 instead of 0 and 2008 instead of > 2009. Or what is the way of doing this? > > Thank you in advance once again > > Regards > > Ahmet > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---