>All the more reason to have it, IMO. What do you think this means: GOMONTH(DATE() - DAY(DATE()) + 1, 1) - 1
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>A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but having to decipher a formula stinks.
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It means last day of this month. What is there to decipher it? To decipher you need something like a cipher, no? Maybe I don't see the philosophy here:) IMHO that X2... was something to decipher for a simple task that you could do inline.
Cetin