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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">EDATE</title>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150880" xml-lang="en-US"><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>
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<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153212" xml-lang="en-US">EDATE(StartDate; Months)</paragraph>
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<emph>StartDate</emph> is a date.</paragraph>
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<emph>Months</emph> is the number of months before (negative) or after (positive) the start date.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155845" xml-lang="en-US">What date is one month prior to 2001-03-31?</paragraph>
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<item type="input">=EDATE("2001-03-31";-1)</item> returns the serial number 36950. Formatted as a date, this is 2001-02-28.</paragraph>
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