excel if statement with a date

[vonoventwin]

I have a date in cell A1 (10/19/2005) that I am trying to write an If statement for and it keeps returning it as False when I put in the statement builder A1="10/19/2005" I only have this problem with dates, why?

[vonoventwin]

I think you can't use an If statement if it's not a number value???

[Hack]

Does VBA support the IsDate Function?

If so, you can use that.

[Webtest]

Post your code attempt ... that will help us to determine exactly what you are trying to do.

[vonoventwin]

when I put in the statement builder A1="10/19/2005" I only have this problem with dates, why?

didn't write code I used statement builder

[Webtest]

I don't know about "Statement Builder", but dates work just fine in VBA code. You just have to consider that the Date/Time data type is a unique animal. It is essentially a floating point number with special handling/formatting/conversion.

'A1    10/19/05
'A2    10/22/05
'A3    10/30/05
'A4    10/31/05
'A5    11/2/05
Option Explicit
Sub Macro1()
If Cells(3, "A").Value > Cells(2, "A").Value Then
    MsgBox Cells(2, "A").Value
Else
    MsgBox Cells(3, "A").Value
End If

If Cells(4, "A").Value > Now() Then
    MsgBox Cells(4, "A").Value
Else
    MsgBox Now()
End If
End Sub

[Webtest]

A date is not a string. As I said, I don't know about "Statement Builder", but try A1 = #10/19/2005#. SQL notation for dates is like this.

[vonoventwin]

The date is recognized as 38644 in General format, so I wrote my code as A1=38644 and it sees it as true even though the format is still as a date. Weird.. But it works!

[Webtest]

=IF(A1=DATEVALUE("12/10/2005"),"True","False")

DATEVALUE converts the string (if possible) to a Date/Time data type. I hope this helps you. I still don't know what "Statement Builder" is or how you get into it, but it is probably just a wizard for the Formula Editor field.

[vonoventwin]

Going off your work I did this:

Sub Macro1()
If Cells(2, "J").Value = "10/19/2005" Then
    Cells(2, "L").Value = Cells(2, "I").Value * 0.3
    MsgBox "30%"
Else
    Cells(2, "L").Value = Cells(2, "I").Value
    MsgBox "Not 30%"
End If
 
End Sub

What I want to do now is make this code work for the whole sheet. Basically:

If Column("J").Value = "10/19/2005" Then
Column("L").Value = Column("I").Value * 0.3
    
Else
    Column("L").Value = Column("I").Value
    
End If