How to determine if a day is within a defined period

Hi All,

I have a particular challenge that I am really struggling with. I am putting together an employee attendance spreadsheet and I need to apply different conditions to absence days depending on how many absences the employee has taken in a given period.

The rule is that on their first day of absence a 56 day period starts. The first three days of this period are unpaid waiting days and then subsequent days within 56 days from the first day are paid in full. The next absence after the 56th day triggers the start of a new 56 day period. I can figure out the way to tackle the absence days within the first 56 day period but I am struggling to determine if it is a waiting or paid day within the next 56 day period. I think I need a little routine that runs each time I change the "Absence Reason" cell and return a value to a cell on the same row but the next column so that I can do calculations with regards their salary.

I have attached a sample sheet that I hope will help.

Thank you in advance for any help.

Eric...

To best describe or illustrate your problem you would be better off attaching a dummy workbook, the workbook should contain the same structure and some dummy data of the same type as the type you have in your real workbook - so, if a cell contains numbers & letters in this format abc-123 then that should be reflected in the dummy workbook. Don't upload a picture when you have a workbook question. None of us is inclined to recreate your data. Upload the workbook and manually add an 'after' situation so that we can see what you expect. In addition clearly explain how you get the results..
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