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271829 2004-09-13 04:20:00 Is there a facility on my PC I can access that will tell me the date say 150 or any no. of days ahead from today. or any date marker I specify. I have W98SE and Office 97 and have tried the Help function in both but no joy. Thanks guys willbry (1555)
271830 2004-09-13 04:30:00 Outlook might have this facility. Under the date thing in 98 ( I think there's one). You can go ahead so many days, dont think u can mark a date. Unless u get a shareware program that does the same thing.. Spacemannz (808)
271831 2004-09-13 04:39:00 Thunderbird, the email client companion to Firefox, has a nice calendar and scheduler extension you can do that in.

Thunderbird (www.mozilla.org)

TBird Extensions (update.mozilla.org)

Cheers Murray P
Murray P (44)
271832 2004-09-13 04:55:00 > Is there a facility on my PC I can access that will
> tell me the date say 150 or any no. of days ahead
> from today. or any date marker I specify. I have
> W98SE and Office 97 and have tried the Help function
> in both but no joy. Thanks guys

As you have Office 97 you probably have Excel. If so then put todays date in cell A1 being formatted as a date cell. Hilight the complete column and format the complete column as date format. In A1 you will have 13/09/2004 for today for example. Select cells a1 to a150 (or whatever) and fill the series down. Step 1 by day.

Not the most elegant of solutions but it will work.

Just checked and 150 days from today gives me Wed 9 Feb 2005
Elephant (599)
271833 2004-09-13 05:11:00 In Excel you can use the following:

In Cell A1 type =now()
this will show the current date and time.

In the cell A2 type =A1+150

This will show you the current date + 150 days....
Marlboro (4607)
271834 2004-09-13 06:01:00 Thanks so much to you all for your solutions. I've actually used yours Marlboro as it seems the simplest as it takes all of 5 seconds to implement and it works. By the way Elephant, are you positive that +150 days is 9th Feb? According to Marlboro's formula it should be 29th Feb. Again my appreciation to all you guys. What a great forum. willbry (1555)
271835 2004-09-13 06:33:00 . By the way Elephant, are you positive
> that +150 days is 9th Feb? According to Marlboro's
> formula it should be 29th Feb . Again my appreciation
> to all you guys . What a great forum .

Not 100% positive here .

I did not actually count 150 days from today on a calender .

What I did was to put a date in cell a1 . Scrolled down 150 rows from 13/9/2004 and read the value in cell 150 after filling with step 1 series .

I thought I could be off by one day .
Elephant (599)
271836 2004-09-13 06:42:00 I have to add that your original question any date marker lead me in a different direction.

Is this the start date which is always the date today or may the start date be a date in the future or even in the past + 150 days?

Or plus 30 days etc.
Elephant (599)
271837 2004-09-13 07:18:00 I owe you an apology Elephant. I must have got it wrong as it can't be 29 Feb [ not a leap year]. I did it again using Marlborio's formula and got 10th Feb. Marlboro's solution is quick for a specified number of days ahead of the current date but what if you want days earlier or the marker day is a day different from today's date. I wonder if Marlboro has a formular Using Excel for these situations? willbry (1555)
271838 2004-09-13 07:27:00 No real apology needed.

Wait until Parry gets into the act.
Elephant (599)
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