As you create Excel spreadsheets for your small business, time and date functions frequently add both convenience and programming capability to your workbooks. There's good news with date functions.

DATEVALUE is a Date and Time function, and its purpose is to convert a date in the form of text to a serial number. In this post, we will show you how to use the DATEVALUE function in Microsoft Excel.

Subtraction is the easiest way to count days between two dates in Excel. You can use the arithmetic operator – (minus sign) to subtract one date from another to find the number of days between them.

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000, which is the only version that explains how this function works.

How to easily include dynamic dates in a Word doc using Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a ...

Excel's AGGREGATE function lets you perform calculations whilst ignoring hidden rows, errors, or other functions that appear in the data. It's similar to the SUBTOTAL function but provides more ...

How to use BYCOL() and BYROW() to evaluate data across columns and rows in Excel Your email has been sent Most Microsoft Excel functions are autonomous—one result value for each function or formula.

The MOD function in Microsoft Excel lets you work out whether one number is divisible by another. If it's not, it tells you what's left over. For example, if you divide 3 by 2, the MOD function will ...

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