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Below you will find a few examples of using DATE formulas in Excel beginning with the simplest ones. Example 1. DATE formula to return a serial number for a date

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The DATE function is very helpful for calculating dates where the year, month, and day values are stored in other cells. Calculate the number of days in a month - how to get the number of days based on the month number or on a date. In case you want not only to calculate but also highlight dates in your Excel worksheets, then create conditional formatting rules based on DATE formulas. Subtracting days from a date: =DATE(2015, 5, 20) - 15The result of the above formula is May 5, 2015, which is May 20, 2015 minus 15 days. And this formula outputs a serial number for the first day of the current month in the current year:

Another scenario when the Excel DATE function proves useful is when the dates are stored in the format that Microsoft Excel does not recognize, for instance DDMMYYYY. In this case, you can use DATE in liaison with other functions to convert a date stored as a numeric string or number into a date:

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Instead of specifying the values representing the year, month and day directly in a formula, you can have some or all arguments driven by of other Excel date functions. For instance, combine the YEAR and TODAY to get a serial number for the first day of the current year. Get the day of the year in Excel - this example explains a DATE/YEAR formula to get a day's number. To subtract a date from today's date: =TODAY()-DATE(2015,5,20)The formula calculates how many days are between the current date and some other date that you specify.