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how do I show a date a specified numbers of years ago in PQ
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Anne Walsh
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August 6, 2018 - 8:13 pm
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I can do this in Excel, no problem. However I want to do it in PQ. I have a list of renewal dates for subscriptions, I need to get the corresponding start dates but using the years'  duration of subscription...e.g. a renewal date is 31/1/2019, the number of years is 1, therefore I want PQ to show me the start date as 31/1/2018...have looked at the duration options but can't find anything there...

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Hi Anne,

You can use Date.AddYears like so:

=Date.AddYears([Renewal Date],-[Years])

 

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Brilliant - thanks a mil. Is it wrong to say I love you and want to have your Excel babies 🙂 in a MMMMM sort of way 🙂

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You can use

=DATE((YEAR(Renewal Date)-Years),MONTH(Renewal Date),DAY(Renewal Date))

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@Vasim, that is an Excel formula. Anne needed a Power Query formula, which is what I provided above.

@Anne, 😀

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