Determining Quarter from a date in Excel

Excel is a great program to manipulate your data, perform what-ifs, and graphically display results. But it's not straight forward when you want to know the which Quarter certain activity took place. Fortunately, with a simple formula you can determine the Quarter.
=ROUNDUP(MONTH(A1)/3,0)

Roundup can be a useful function in other applications as well. The last parameter (0 in this example) is used to change the rounding level. A positive number will add decimal places, while a negative number will round left of the decimal (i.e. -1 rounds to 10s and -2 rounds to 100s).

Comments

Leo said…
It is a very clever way to determine Quarter in a year. Thanks a lot!
I just wonder why Excel 2007 does not have a function to do this.
Amanda said…
Thank you so much! This worked perfectly.

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