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26<topic id="textscalc01func_edatexml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">EDATE</title>
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33<bookmark_value>EDATE function</bookmark_value>
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36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151184" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U"><variable id="edate"><link href="text/scalc/01/func_edate.xhp">EDATE</link>
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38<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150880" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><ahelp hid="HID_AAI_FUNC_EDATE">The result is a date which is a number of <emph>months</emph> away from the <emph>start date</emph>. Only months are considered; days are not used for calculation.</ahelp></paragraph>
39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154647" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U">Syntax</paragraph>
40<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153212" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">EDATE(StartDate; Months)</paragraph>
41<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146860" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>StartDate</emph> is a date.</paragraph>
42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152929" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Months</emph> is the number of months before (negative) or after (positive) the start date.</paragraph>
43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151289" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U">Example</paragraph>
44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155845" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">What date is one month prior to 3.31.2001?</paragraph>
45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155999" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><item type="input">=EDATE(3.31.2001;-1)</item> returns 2.28.2001.</paragraph>
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