Excel - removing a date from a series of data values (and not breaking the code)

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SerjTank

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#191664 11-Feb-2016 18:34

I'm a kiwi teaching English at a university in South Korea. Its been a while since I studied computers. As part of my preparations for the upcoming semester, I am making an excel spreadsheet:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Z9Vd0_D9EeUHdQZjZGVmJDNWM/view?pref=2&pli=1

During this semester, there will be two public holidays (highlighted yellow using conditional formatting). I have calculated my syllabus using a formula based upon when the first day of semester for each class is respectively.

How can I remove these two days (to basically shift each column 'up') without breaking the code for days following the public holiday?

blackjack17

1704 posts

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#1490709 11-Feb-2016 18:57

What about changing the text to white?

that way it will look like an empty cell, or did you want it looking tidier than that?

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SerjTank

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#1490735 11-Feb-2016 19:18

The problem isn't so much for formatting of the values, but more if I delete the dates which are public holidays, that the dates which fall after this continue to be calculated correctly.

So, for example, if I delete the value in B31, all of the dates following that will move up by one (Unit 12B = 8 June)

Yabanize

2350 posts

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#1490738 11-Feb-2016 19:37

Not sure if this is what you want

SerjTank

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#1490934 12-Feb-2016 10:06

So I was probably over-complicating things, and given the simple formula, manual entry would be the easiest solution.

Thanks for the help!