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DATEDIF
Hi
I found on excel helpfile the description of the functin DATEDIF but it does not exsit on excel function list. Can you help me find it? Thank you Shaul |
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DATEDIF
Hi,
This function is available in Excel, but is documented only in Excel 2000 see this page: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm HTH --- Orlando Magalhães Filho (So that you get best and rapid solution and all may benefit from the discussion, please reply within the newsgroup, not in email) "ùàåì" escreveu na mensagem ... Hi I found on excel helpfile the description of the functin DATEDIF but it does not exsit on excel function list. Can you help me find it? Thank you Shaul |
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DATEDIF
Shaul,
The answer to your question can be found on Chip Pearson's site. Had you not multiposted to all the ng's, I'd have given you the direct link to what you want. Since you did, though, visit this site: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/newposte.htm then go to his home page and search for your answer. John "ùàåì" wrote: Hi I found on excel helpfile the description of the functin DATEDIF but it does not exsit on excel function list. Can you help me find it? Thank you Shaul |
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DATEDIF
"John Wilson" wrote...
.... Had you not multiposted to all the ng's, I'd have given you the .... If you're going to be sanctimonious why not get your terminology correct? The OP *crossposted*, NOT multiposted. Outside the microsoft.* newsgroups crossposting is generally accepted. In other words, for some of us the OP did nothing wrong. So, for the OP, here's the link. http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datedif.htm |
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DATEDIF
Don,
Regradless of what I posted in my response to Harlan, I'm certain that I'll point new posters to either Chip's or Dave's "new poster" pages when appropriate. The question, of course, is who determines when it's appropriate? In Harlan's eye's, either what I did or how I did it on this particular post, wasn't appropriate. No matter. He's entiltled to his opinions. I was hoping by my original post that the OP would visit Chip's page on posting nettiquette and then find the answer that he was looking for within Chip's site (kind of a "kill two birds with one stone" approach). Admittedly, it was worded a little sanctimoniously though and I'll do my best to refrain from that in the future. Of course, when someone chastises an OP as I did in this post and someone else gives the OP the answer that they're looking for without the chastisement, it leaves the chastiser (me) open to whatever wrath the OP might wish to unleash on me. I'm sure you know that can sometimes get ugly. While my response to the OP could have been worded a little better, my intent was to help him get the answer he was looking for and at the same time, alert the OP to the nettiquette rules. Having Harlan chastise me for the way that I treated the OP is something along the lines of the "pot calling the kettle black", though. Oh well, I do very much enjoy the time that I spend in these newsgroups and will sureley continue to do so. Life goes on. Take care and thanks for the reply, John Don Guillett wrote: John, FWIW, I fully agree that we should tell the OP about netiquette HERE. Sometimes we are a bit more curt than we should be but we SHOULD tell them. -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software Granite Shoals, TX |
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DATEDIF
"Don Guillett" wrote...
FWIW, I fully agree that we should tell the OP about netiquette HERE. Sometimes we are a bit more curt than we should be but we SHOULD tell them. .... In newsgroups other than the microsoft.public.excel.* ones, crossposting AS DISTINCT FROM multiposting is acceptable conduct. In another thread a few weeks ago, David McRitchie claimed this wasn't so in 'technical' newsgroups. I countered with the observation that Google Groups searches of comp.lang.perl.* and comp.lang.awk (and comp.os.linux.misc upon subsequent review) have few is any complaints about crossposting, mostly complaints about crossposting to IRRELEVANT newsgroups. Check for yourself if you don't believe me. All that matters in USENET is that postings be ON-TOPIC. It's quite possible that one posting can be on-topic in a dozen different newsgroups. But it's only here that people get bent out of shape about crossposting. Disclaimer: I don't care what Chip or David's sites have to say about netiquette if USENET rules are different. Even for microsoft.* newsgroups, I'll go along with the SPONSOR'S (Microsoft's) rules, and there's squat all about either crossposting or multiposting in http://www.microsoft.com/communities...on123121120120 Now we do agree about file attachments. Why? Because they waste bandwidth and make synchronizing take longer. Also, there's virus worries (not much a reason, IMO, since it's easy to turn off macros). But all are objective reasons. Also, there's broad consensus that it's bad. As for multiposting, also bad, mostly for the same reasons as well as fracturing responses. But crossposting is different. Anyone using Outlook Express or any other newsreader that uses message IDs as keys into [effectively] databases of newsgroup articles suffers NOTHING from crossposted articles - once a crossposted message is read in one newsgroup, it's marked as read in all others. This doesn't help with CDO or Google or the [execrable] AOL newsreader, but there are alternatives to these, many still free, so I have little sympathy. And even so, damn few of the regular responders use Web interfaces. There's a broad consensus about file attachments and *multiposting*, but less of one for crossposting (if I'm the only one who doesn't mind it, so be it). There's also the *FACT* that USENET netiquette is at most silent about crossposting per se, and ONLY requires that postings be on-topic. That's why it's not uncommon to see questions about writing firmware for video controllers in comp.os.linux.development.system and comp.harware with no one getting huffy. The claim that many of the regulars read all groups is irrelevant if the regulars offer no answers (granted a rare occurrence in some of the ngs). Also, there are quite a few regulars in .programming who never seem to respond in .misc or .worksheet.functions. Crossposting just doesn't bother me, and I find it odd that the rest of you get so bent out of shape about it because you're not all so stupid that you fail to understand that it's NOT THE SAME as multiposting. Or are you? |
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DATEDIF
"John Wilson" wrote...
.... My only goal was to to try to educate the OP on newsgroup nettiquette for any subsequent posts that he might make. The result of which, if he did heed the advice, would be to save someone in the future from wasting time answering a post that had already been answered. .... Fine. It was the way you responded that got to me. No direct answer, just a link to a newposter site. You should have given a link to the DATEDIF page as well. Just my opinion, FWLIW. As for wasting people's time, crossposting as opposed to multiposting, doesn't, at least for those using newsreaders that make intelliegent use of message IDs. If you check the .programming ng, you'll notice that Orlando did, in fact, give the OP the direct link to Chip's "datedif" page hours before you wasted whatever time it took you to look it up and post it here. .... Yes, and the reason I DIDN'T see that is because Orlando responded ONLY in ..programming. So who fractured the thread - the OP or Orlando? |
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DATEDIF
Harlan,
It was the way you responded that got to me. Agreed. I could have worded it better. No direct answer, just a link to a newposter site. You should have given a link to the DATEDIF page as well. Just my opinion, FWLIW. My intent was to get him to the newposter page first and with a little more effort, get the answer he needed. IMHO, it doesn't hurt for anyone to who gets help here to have, at one time or another, read Chip's or Dave's "Hint's and Tips for New Posters" whether it agrees with Microsoft's "rules" or not. As for wasting people's time, crossposting as opposed to multiposting, doesn't, at least for those using newsreaders that make intelliegent use of message IDs. I honestly didn't really understand the difference till now. It is rather neat the way it's set up in the ng's that if you post a reply to a crosspost it shows up as read in all the ng's. So I learned something. So who fractured the thread - the OP or Orlando? Obviously, Orlando did. Respectfully, John |
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DATEDIF
Followup set to microsoft.public.excel.misc
In article , "Harlan*Grove" wrote: There's a broad consensus about file attachments and *multiposting*, but less of one for crossposting (if I'm the only one who doesn't mind it, so be it). You're not the only one - I had a go at this a couple of years ago. Didn't convince anyone that I know of. Cross-posting to appropriate groups wastes nothing and increases the liklihood of an appropriate response, so I'm all for it. The one legitimate, IMO, argument against actively promoting it was made by David McRitchie regarding the fracturing of threads in the archives. Google apparently archives messages in the first group only, so if posts are made from multiple groups the threads will be broken. This, while true, is an inconvenience worth accepting as long as cross-posts stay a small percentage of threads. The archives are a great resource, but the value in ngs is the near real-time interaction. And since this has gotten so far off-track for most of the groups' purposes, I'm setting followup to microsoft.public.excel.misc, which, purely IMO, ought to have been done several replies ago. |
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