How to Use Dates in Excel - 10 Things You Must Know

Introduction Guide to using Dates in Excel - this tutorial will show you how to input and use dates in Excel, including formatting and adding / subtracting days, months, and years from a date, and using the Excel serial number date format.

This Excel Date tutorial is for people who are trying to learn how dates work in Excel and it approaches this topic from the perspective of a complete beginner.

Oddly enough, dates can be quite complex in Excel, but this tutorial will provide you with a foundation that you can use to perform most of the date based calculations and input that you need to do and it also serves as a jumping-off point for more complex date based calculations in Excel.

Here is a list of the 10 topics covered in this tutorial:
- Inputting dates correctly in Excel.
- Formatting dates so they appear as you want, including showing the day of week, month, day, and year.
- Working with date based serial numbers (how Excel sees dates).
- How to enter dates as text.
- How to get the day, month, or year from a date.
- How to make a date using a dynamic formula and date function.
- How to add and subtract days from a date.
- How to add and subtract months from a date.
- How to add and subtract years from a date.
- How to add and subtract days, months, and years from a date at the same time.

This list of topics will provide you with a strong foundation for using dates in Excel.

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[ajarroyos]

Excellent tutorial! Perfect pace and very clear narration. Thank you!

[Assassinpumpkin]

I had years trying to find the function DATE, thank you very much!

[IvanCortinas_ES]

Thank you for your tutorial. All's is clear!

[darrylmorgan]

Great Tutorial Nicely Explained...Thank You Sir :)

[AaronHernandez-xvqh]

This is awesome! Great material to know

[sabrinamimouni]

Would like to subtract times in long dates to get "service/wait time" in minutes. But can't figure it out. You're video is amazing and the edate function is gonna help a lot. ❤

[ShaunPaget]

HELP I need a formula to add 7 every 7 days for a time sheet setup. can I round up to a specific day of the week?

[joyscorner]

Hi, need help, sorry. How to convert this Sep 13, 2021 into proper date (09/13/2021) in excel? I've been working on this for almost an hour, somehow, I cannot do it.

[Odhghjjghj]

Hi, I have bunch of dates which consist of both real and date text in one excel cell.pls how do in all to a real date.

[pindapoy]

As a heading to a spreadsheet in XL I want to put: MARCH 2024. How do you do that? The computer will automatically enter 3/1/2024 or something else that is of no use to me and the explanation does not cover such case.

[MrBradWilliams]

Once again, another fantastic, simple tutorial, that even a daily Excel user of 20+ years can use and enjoy. I only half-@$$ed date formulas in the past, but this video makes you focus on the parts for a few seconds, and not so long that you get the urge to skip ahead. ALSO - I've only ever gone to the Formulas tab to use the Name Manager. Never even noticed the Function Library. That's great, thank you.

[Odhghjjghj]

Please i can i convert it all to a real date

[usmankhan-hnnb]

Thanks sir but i want to contact u i want to learn something from u. How can i contact u?

[dobrostarr]

I just want to type 1123 and have it return 1/1/23

[henniebotha]

I would just love to type 12/10 and it be converted to 12-Oct, and not 10-Dec. I know logic is boring but I like to see the day before the month. Excel doesn't seem to allow this. I mean that is just the way we speak. We say today is the 12th of October. We don't say today is October the 12th. Well we don't anyway...