[Dba-office] Help figuring out the Best Approach To Take

[Bryan Carbonnell]

Thank you David & Tina for your help.

I've now got a spreadsheet that we can easily keep track of our days
in the US, and after filling it in, yikes we are close.

B

On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 5:05 PM, Tina Norris Fields
<tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote:
> Bryan
>
> I think a moving running countif() formula should do it.  So, in one column
> you have the dates, day by day.  In the next column you enter a C or a U for
> which country you were in on that day.  Since this is a limit of 182 days in
> the past 365, you need to track how many days have gone by as well as how
> many of them you were where.  For the first 365 days you will count from the
> beginning cell.  After that, your days range will always report 365 days,
> and your C and U columns will count the days they are checked in the moving
> 365 day range.
>
> I'm sending you a workbook off-list.  I've put in dummy data so you can see
> that it works.
>
> This is just one way to do it, but It will work.
>
> Regards,
> TNF
>
> Tina Norris Fields
> tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com
> 231-322-2787
>
> On 03/29/16 2:47 PM, Bryan Carbonnell wrote:
>>
>> I hope I can explain what I'm trying to do properly.
>>
>> Let me give you some background so you understand what I'm up against.
>>
>> As a Canadian I can only be in the US for 182 days in the past 365
>> days. This 365 days is a rolling 365 days and not a calendar year. So
>> for today it is 182 days from March 30, 2015 to Mar 29, 2016. Tomorrow
>> it would be 182 days from Mar 31, 2015 to Mar 30, 2016 etc.
>>
>> I was thinking of using Excel, one column for each year, each row for
>> a different day of the year and putting either a C or U to denote
>> which country I'm in.
>>
>> Then having a cell at the top that counts all the U or C in the
>> previous 365 days.
>>
>> However I'm not sure how to go about this.
>>
>> Oh, and I have to keep 4 years of records to stay out of trouble with the
>> IRS.
>>
>> I'm hoping the brain power here can help me figure this out.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions or pointers. Oh, Access is NOT an option.
>> I'm on a Mac.
>>
>
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