1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4 5<!-- 6 *********************************************************************** 7 * 8 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 9 * 10 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 11 * 12 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 13 * 14 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 15 * 16 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 17 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 18 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 19 * 20 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 21 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 22 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 23 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 24 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 25 * 26 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 27 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 28 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 29 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 30 * 31 ************************************************************************ 32 --> 33 34 35 <helpdocument version="1.0"> 36<meta> 37<topic id="textscalc01func_eomonthxml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 38<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">EOMONTH</title> 39<filename>/text/scalc/01/func_eomonth.xhp</filename> 40</topic> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150991"><bookmark_value>EOMONTH function</bookmark_value> 44</bookmark> 45<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/SC_HID_AAI_FUNC_EOMONTH" id="bm_id3158439" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150991" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" oldref="231"><variable id="eomonth"><link href="text/scalc/01/func_eomonth.xhp">EOMONTH</link> 46</variable></paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152766" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="232"><ahelp hid="HID_AAI_FUNC_EOMONTH">Returns the date of the last day of a month which falls m<emph>onths</emph> away from the s<emph>tart date</emph>.</ahelp></paragraph> 48<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150597" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="233">Syntax</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150351" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="234">EOMONTH(StartDate; Months)</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146787" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="235"> 51<emph>StartDate</emph> is a date (the starting point of the calculation).</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155615" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="236"> 53<emph>Months</emph> is the number of months before (negative) or after (positive) the start date.</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156335" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="237">Example</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154829" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="238">What is the last day of the month that falls 6 months after September 14 2001?</paragraph> 56 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156143" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="239"><item type="input">=EOMONTH(DATE(2001;9;14);6)</item> returns the serial number 37346. Formatted as a date, this is 2002-03-31.</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156144" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="239"><item type="input">=EOMONTH("2001-09-14";6)</item> works as well. If the date is given as string, it has to be in ISO format.</paragraph> 59 60</body> 61</helpdocument> 62