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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">EOMONTH</title>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150991"><bookmark_value>EOMONTH function</bookmark_value>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="hid/SC_HID_AAI_FUNC_EOMONTH" id="bm_id3158439" localize="false"/><paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150991" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" oldref="231"><variable id="eomonth"><link href="text/scalc/01/func_eomonth.xhp">EOMONTH</link>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152766" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="232"><ahelp hid="HID_AAI_FUNC_EOMONTH">Returns the date of the last day of a month which falls m<emph>onths</emph> away from the s<emph>tart date</emph>.</ahelp></paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150597" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="233">Syntax</paragraph>
<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150351" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="234">EOMONTH(StartDate; Months)</paragraph>
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<emph>StartDate</emph> is a date (the starting point of the calculation).</paragraph>
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<emph>Months</emph> is the number of months before (negative) or after (positive) the start date.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156335" xml-lang="en-US" level="3" l10n="U" oldref="237">Example</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154829" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="238">What is the last day of the month that falls 6 months after September 14 2001?</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156143" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="239"><item type="input">=EOMONTH(DATE(2001;9;14);6)</item> returns the serial number 37346. Formatted as a date, this is 2002-03-31.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156144" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="239"><item type="input">=EOMONTH("2001-09-14";6)</item> works as well. If the date is given as string, it has to be in ISO format.</paragraph>
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