EOMONTH and EDATE: End of months and future/past dates

…Excel has a number of built in functions related to dealing with dates and times.…On the formulas tab in the ribbon, there's an icon for a date and…time, and here are some of the…many functions devoted to those 2 particular capabilities.…In this worksheet called e date and eo month, in column b we want to come…up with the third anniversary for these different…starting dates, presumably for starting date for employees.…Possibly the 3 could mean three months, it could mean 3 years.…We can handle either of these with the e date function.…

Equal e date, left parentheses, here's the starting date, comma, 3,…now if we mean 3 months, that's exactly what we'll get here.…Looking ahead before we complete this though, 3 months after August…is November, we're going to be seeing the same day of the month.…But there is no 31st of November so as you would…hope and expect here, we're going to get November 30th as our answer.…And, that's what we give it as we press enter.…Double-click to copy this down the column.…And, you see that, in all entries, except for that…