2] Using the DAYS function. DAYS is a date function in Excel that calculates the difference between two given dates in days.It can recognize dates passed as ‘strings’ if they can be parsed as ...

M ost of us stick to the popular Excel functions like SUM and VLOOKUP, barely scratching the surface of what Excel can really do. As a result, even seasoned Excel users often find ...

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000. It's fallen off current Excel menus, but you can still use it.

Excel doesn’t offer a function that returns the total number of days in a specified month, and before EOMONTH() came around, an expression to do so was complex.

The NETWORKDAYS function in Excel is a date and time function that returns the number of whole working days between Start_date and End_date.

The DAY() function converts the =TODAY() date to a number (e.g., 1, 2, 3), which corresponds with one of the 30 days in any month. So, regardless of what month the TODAY() function displays, A2 ...

Microsoft Excel's Month and Weekday functions output numeric values for a given date. The Month function results in the month numbers, such as "3" for March or "12" for December.

People like many Excel features but don’t have the time or energy to learn a bunch more. Well, there is good news for those who fit this description. Just like our mobile phones are “smart” these days ...

In the simplified example shown below, I applied Excel’s Color Scale formatting to each project’s duration column (the column labeled Days) as follows: I started by highlighting the Days column for ...