<<would now() have also worked in your formula.>> NOW() gives the current date AND TIME, whereas TODAY() only gives the date....so, NOW() would only work if the dates in column A were formatted as date AND time Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com Free e-Books, Newsletter, and tutorials -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Donald C. Smith Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 9:18 PM To: Mso-Microsoft Office Newsgroup (E-mail) Subject: [mso] Re: Excel formula assistance I think that might be the shortened version of what I want :-))) I have read up on lookup functions, taken college courses in my area and written my own formulas, including a vlookup today that worked fine. I get confused on the differences: Lookup Vs. Hlookup (horizontal) VLookup (vertical) Match Index They all seem to do basically the same thing. Probably just my warped mind. Just out of curiosity would now() have also worked in your formula. Thanks Again Don ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************