Add Month to a Date

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Get Next Month’s Date
Add 6 Months to a Date
Add 3 Months to a Date
Subtract Months from a Date

Just like years, you can add months in a date to get a future date and subtract to get a date from the past. In this tutorial, we will look at all the methods with multiple examples to do that.

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Get Next Month’s Date

In the first example, we will write a formula to get the date from the next month we will use the EDATE formula. As you can see in the following example, we have a date in cell A1, for which need to get the exact date for the next month.

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Follow the below steps:

  1. First, enter “=EDATE(“ in cell B1.
  2. After that, refer to cell A1, where you have the date.
  3. Now, in the second argument, enter 1.
  4. In the end, type a closing parenthesis and hit enter.

Here you have the date 10-Feb-2022 in cell B1 which is exact 1 month ahead (next month) from the date we have specified in the formula.

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=EDATE(A1,1)

Add 6 Months to a Date

In the same way, you can add 6 months to a date and get a date that is 6 months ahead of the current date. In the following example, we have the same date in cell A1 that we have earlier.

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Now to add 6 months to this you just need to use the following formula.

enter-edate-formula

=EDATE(A1,6)

Add 3 Months to a Date

And in the same way, you want to add three days.

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 =EDATE(A1,3)

Subtract Months from a Date

Now let’s say you want to subtract months from a date. In this case, you just need to use a negative number in the second argument (month).

subtract-months-from-date

In the following example, we have used -6 in the month argument, and we have got the date 10-Jul-21 which is exact 6 months back from the 10-Jan-22.

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