Formula Help Needed

Hi everyone,

Need some help. I'm sure this is a simple formula ... but I'm not Excel (or Smartsheets) savvy enough to figure it out.

I have a DATE column, and I have a FLAG column. If the date entered in the DATE column is more than 7 days in the past, I want the FLAG to appear in the flag column. If the DATE entered is less than 7 days in the past, then I want the flag to disappear.

Is this doable?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Mike Wilday

This might work - you need to put it in the flag column and make sure that Date1 is the date column you are referring to,

=IF(Today() > Date1+7, 1, 0)

Mike Wilday

You might need to adjust the +7 to plus 6 to get your tally of 7 days.

Cecily Hill

Hmmm... that did not work. It made the flag appear, no matter what date was in the date column.

Mike Wilday

Take the spaces out from around the > Bracket.

Here is a sample sheet with it working:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=e46474ea96954344b292fd634a785aad

Also: I made an adjustment so blank date fields do not have a flag...

=IF(ISBLANK(Date5), "", IF(TODAY() > Date5 + 6, 1, 0))

Cecily Hill

Oh my goodness... I just realized my mistake in implementing the first suggested formula: I wasn't entering the row number for the DATE column. Derp.

Both of the formulas suggested are working. Thank you all for your help!