Sunday 1 November 2015

Functions in Excel =date()

Functions in Excel 

=date()

     When we work in Excel it is very important to understand how date calculations work. Date functions plays a vital role in this. For users excel display the date in understandable format but actually excel treat dates as a number while processing.
       
       Some time in development environment clients will send the in notepad and you need to import that data into excel with date a text format, in those situation we can use the =date() functions and get the accurate date.
      
       Excel stores dates as a serial no and to know about that serial no we need to use =date() function.
    

      Date functions uses Year, Month, Day as an argument.



Get the serial no of date




Get the date from text value





Date is the main function to work with dates in excel but there are lot of functions are available. In coming days we will go one by one with these functions.

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Sanjay Bakshi
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