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On Sat, 04 Apr 2020 13:45:38 +0100
Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

At 07:50 04/04/2020 -0400, Peter Dutton wrote:
Thanks- the "/" works perfectly.  

Good-oh!

Nothing's easy in this world.  

Many things are.

What has been created in the calc sheet is the day number of the 
year which is followed by the "/".  In the cell beside the result is 
the remaining number of days in the year. Here's an example of what 
I'd like to see for this date (February 10, 2020)
41 / 325

In this case 325 is the remaining number of days in the year 2020 
from the date Feb. 10. The cell in which the formula used to obtain 
the figure of 325 is-
=365-S4+1

"S4" is the cell where the day number of the year is located 
returned by the formula, as mentioned below-
=DATEDIF($Begin_Here.$E$76,R4,"d")" / "  

I still don't think this is the clearest or best formula for what you 
need. (And you've lost the ampersand, though I suspect that's a 
"feature" of your mail system.)

What happens to the remaining days number in cell S4 the dreaded 
error - #VALUE! is returned. I suspect this has something to do with 
the formatting of the cell but can't figure it out.  

It's nothing to do with formatting: it's to do with, er, values. It's 
hardly surprising, since - as I made clear - what you have now put in 
S4 is not the number 41 but the *string* "41 / ", and that is not a 
number. You cannot calculate with strings (unless they happen to 
represent numbers in a simple way). What do you expect if you try to 
divide "three" by "two"? "one point five"?!

Any ideas?  

Yes. Take the concatenated slash off your formula so that it creates 
the number 41 in S4, as before. Then use
=S4&" / "&366-S4
for your result.

Or keep the two numbers in separate columns as before, but insert
another column just containing '/' in between them. It depends what the
result is to be used for.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker




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