Combine selected dates into a single string for those with similar month

[BoSonic]

Hi everyone,

I have up to 8 cells in which dates can be selected. I would like the dates that are given to be displayed in another cell and combined if they are of the same month. For example if you pick 12/5 and 12/6 and 12/7 then I want it to display "December 5, 6 and 7" but if 12/5 and12/6 and 1/4 are selected I want it to give "December 5 and 6 and January 4".

I've got it working for 2 dates, but obviously the hard part is getting it to deal with up to 8. Here is my solution for just two though:

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I was wondering if an array constant would be needed??

Thanks so much!

[Pete_UK]

Those TEXT functions will give you month and day, rather than "December 5, 6 and 7".

You might like to check out this UDF by tigeravatar in the Tips and Tutorials section:

http://www.excelforum.com/tips-and-t...geravatar.html

Hope this helps.

Pete

[BoSonic]

Hi Pete,

Thanks for the link. That function looks useful, but I am needing this to selectively place the dates behind their particular month in the string. So if I have output "December 1 and 2 and January 5", but then change one of the dates to 1/7 then the string will read" December 1 and January 5 and 7". I was just using the Text"MMMM" format to match the months logically, I just as easily used the Month() function to do it however Text is useful for formatting the output. I was not wanting to write a VBA procedure for this as I think I would have to load the months in to a variant array and check all permutations.

Thanks,

[Pete_UK]

In Post #10 of that thread, Tony Valko refers to using the UDF within an array formula - that's what I thought would be useful to you.

Pete

[BoSonic]

Ah, I see now.

Yes, that might very well do what I wanted, thank you for pointing that out. I will see if I can build it.

Much appreciated,

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