Excel add on one month to a date

Add or subtract days from a date

Suppose that a bill of yours is due on the second Friday of each month. You want to transfer funds to your checking account so that those funds arrive 15 calendar days before that date, so you’ll subtract 15 days from the due date. In the following example, you’ll see how to add and subtract dates by entering positive or negative numbers. 

Add or subtract days from a date with =A2+B2, where A2 is a date, and B2 is the number of days to add or subtract.

  1. Enter your due dates in column A.

  2. Enter the number of days to add or subtract in column B. You can enter a negative number to subtract days from your start date, and a positive number to add to your date.

  3. In cell C2, enter =A2+B2, and copy down as needed.

Add or subtract months from a date with the EDATE function

You can use the EDATE function to quickly add or subtract months from a date.

The EDATE function requires two arguments: the start date and the number of months that you want to add or subtract. To subtract months, enter a negative number as the second argument. For example, =EDATE(«9/15/19»,-5) returns 4/15/19.

Use EDATE to add or subtract months from a date. In this case, =EDATE(A2,B2) where A2 is a date, and B2 has the number of months to add or subtract.

  1. For this example, you can enter your starting dates in column A.

  2. Enter the number of months to add or subtract in column B. To indicate if a month should be subtracted, you can enter a minus sign (-) before the number (e.g. -1).

  3. Enter =EDATE(A2,B2) in cell C2, and copy down as needed.

    Notes: 

    • Depending on the format of the cells that contain the formulas that you entered, Excel might display the results as serial numbers. For example, 8-Feb-2019 might be displayed as 43504.

    • Excel stores dates as sequential serial numbers so that they can be used in calculations. By default, January 1, 1900 is serial number 1, and January 1, 2010 is serial number 40179 because it is 40,178 days after January 1, 1900.

    • If your results appear as serial numbers, select the cells in question and continue with the following steps:

      • Press Ctrl+1 to launch the Format Cells dialog, and click the Number tab.

      • Under Category, click Date, select the date format you want, and then click OK. The value in each of the cells should appear as a date instead of a serial number.

Add or subtract years from a date

In this example, we’re adding and subtracting years from a starting date with the following formula:

=DATE(YEAR(A2)+B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2))

Add or subtract years from a starting date with =DATE(YEAR(A2)+B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2))

How the formula works:

  • The YEAR function looks at the date in cell A2, and returns 2019. It then adds 3 years from cell B2, resulting in 2022.

  • The MONTH and DAY functions only return the original values from cell A2, but the DATE function requires them.

  • Finally, the DATE function then combines these three values into a date that’s 3 years in the future — 02/08/22.

Add or subtract a combination of days, months, and years to/from a date

In this example, we’re adding and subtracting years, months and days from a starting date with the following formula:

=DATE(YEAR(A2)+B2,MONTH(A2)+C2,DAY(A2)+D2)

Use the DATE function to add or subtract years, months, or days to/from a date.

How the formula works:

  • The YEAR function looks at the date in cell A2, and returns 2019. It then adds 1 year from cell B2, resulting in 2020.

  • The MONTH function returns 6, then adds 7 to it from cell C2. This gets interesting, because 6 + 7 = 13, which is 1-year and 1-month. In this case, the formula will recognize that and automatically add another year to the result, bumping it from 2020 to 2021.

  • The DAY function returns 8, and adds 15 to it. This will work similarly to the MONTH portion of the formula if you go over the number of days in a given month.

  • The DATE function then combines these three values into a date that is 1 year, 7 months, and 15 days in the future — 01/23/21.

Here are some ways you could use a formula or worksheet functions that work with dates to do things like, finding the impact to a project’s schedule if you add two weeks, or time needed to complete a task.

Let’s say your account has a 30-day billing cycle, and you want to have the funds in your account 15 days before the March 2013 billing date. Here’s how you would do that, using a formula or function to work with dates.

  1. In cell A1, type 2/8/13.

  2. In cell B1, type =A1-15.

  3. In cell C1, type =A1+30.

  4. In cell D1, type =C1-15.

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Add months to a date

We’ll use the EDATE function and you’ll need the start date and the number of months you want to add. Here’s how to add 16 months to 10/24/13:

use EDATE formula to add months to a date

  1. In cell A1, type 10/24/13.

  2. In cell B1, type =EDATE(A1,16).

  3. To format your results as dates, select cell B1. Click the arrow next to Number Format, > Short Date.

Subtract months from a date

We’ll use the same EDATE function to subtract months from a date.

Type a date in Cell A1 and in cell B1, type the formula =EDATE(4/15/2013,-5).

Subtract months from a date

Here, we’re specifying the value of the start date entering a date enclosed in quotation marks.

You can also just refer to a cell that contains a date value or by using the formula =EDATE(A1,-5)for the same result.

More examples

To add years to or subtract years from a date

Adding and subtracting dates examples

Start Date

Years added or subtracted

Formula

Result

10/24/2013

3 (add 3 years)

=DATE(YEAR(A2)+B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2))

10/24/2016

10/24/2013

-5 (subtract 5 years)

=DATE(YEAR(A4)+B4,MONTH(A4),DAY(A4))

10/24/2008

That won’t do what I need it to do though. I want to update the existing cells to increase the date in each of them. I updated my question to (hopefully) make it clearer. – Scott 33 mins ago

From the comment under the deleted answer(Jerry) (Since I can still see them :p), I guess you want to use VBA. If that is the case then see this.You need to use the DateAdd()

If you check the Excel’s help, DateAdd returns a Variant (Date) containing a date to which a specified time interval has been added.

Syntax

DateAdd(interval, number, date)

The interval argument has these settings:

Setting Description
yyyy    Year
q       Quarter
m       Month
y       Day of year
d       Day
w       Weekday
ww      Week
h       Hour
n       Minute
s       Second

Paste this in a module.

Sub Sample()
    Dim ws As Worksheet
    Dim lRow As Long, i As Long

    '~~> Change this to the relevant sheet
    Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet1")

    With ws
        lRow = .Range("A" & .Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row

        For i = 3 To lRow
            .Range("A" & i).Value = DateAdd("m", 1, .Range("A" & i).Value)
        Next i
    End With
End Sub

How to add one or more months to a date; how to add or substract one or
more years to a date

Sometimes we need to add 1 or 2 months to a date or one year to a date. What is
the best way to do this.

Some will say it is to add 31 days to the date or to add 365.25 days to
one year. But this is not accurate as the months and years are not always
the same.

= A1 + 365.25 (this would add about one year to the date but will not be
exact)

Here is the trick.

By combining the DATE(), Year(), Month() and Day() formula you get the trick
and adding or substracting one year or one month to a date will work fine.

To add three (3) months to the cell A1

 =DATE(YEAR(A1), MONTH(A1) + 3 , DAY(A1))

To add 2 years to the cell in A1

=DATE(YEAR(A1) + 2 , MONTH(A1)  , DAY(A1))

You can also substract a month to a date

 =DATE(YEAR(A1), MONTH(A1) — 2 , DAY(A1))

Or you can substract a few years to a date (although you will not become
younger that way :-))

 =DATE(YEAR(A1) — 10, MONTH(A1) , DAY(A1))

This should keep the count correct and will let you add a month or a year or
even days easily in Excel.

Remark: Just be careful when copying from this page the add
one year formula, your Excel version might want to have semicolumn (;)
instead of commas (,) as separators.

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