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.

Creating a series of random dates in Excel allows you to test your spreadsheet's functions on a variety of dates or look at projections for a range of future dates. Excel has a built in random number ...

The EOMONTH function in Microsoft Excel returns the last day of a month in the past, the current month, or a month in the future. Whether you need to calculate end-of-month due dates, deadlines, ...

If you are looking to improve your financial modelling skills when using Microsoft Excel spreadsheets you might be interested in this quick overview guide that provides an in-depth exploration of the ...

The Text to Columns functionality divides text contained within a solitary column into multiple columns using a designated delimiter, such as a comma or space. This even holds true for dates formatted ...

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 ...

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