how to apply data validation for a particular cell in excel

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I want to apply date validation on a particular cell 'F1' whose month should be the month of another cell 'E1' but the date may vary.

How to achieve this

e.g

E1 : 06/31/2013

f1 : 06/25/2015

guide me to achieve this

Posted 7-Jun-13 23:02pm

Rohini P

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2013-06-07T23:43:00

If you want to do it using Excel validation, please, refer below links:
Apply data validation to cells[^]
Description and examples of data validation in Excel[^]
Validation formula should be similar to the below formula.

Another way is to add formula into G column:
=IF(VALUE(E2)=MONTH(F2),"OK","Wrong date format!")

At least, you can achieve that using Worksheet events (VBA):
Worksheet.Calculate Event (Excel)[^]
or
Worksheet.Change Event (Excel)[^]

ridoy · Answer 2 · 2013-06-07T23:08:00

Solution 1

See..
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/oxmlsdk/thread/37bd8bac-c3b5-4139-9410-40dcd96355ab[^]
http://csharp.net-informations.com/excel/csharp-excel-validation.htm[^]
http://stackoverflow.com//questions/9033995/applying-date-validation-to-excel-cell-from-vb-net[^]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13908505/how-to-add-number-validation-in-ms-excel-cell-using-c-sharp[^]

Posted 7-Jun-13 23:08pm

ridoy

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Maciej Los 8-Jun-13 5:46am

Ridoy, it's interesting collection of links, but i'm affraid that OP wants to do it direct in Excel application (no C#, no VBA, etc). Of course, i'm not 100% sure ;)
See my answer.

ridoy 8-Jun-13 6:56am

While giving answer i also think so,you are right may be..:)