To insert the current date in worksheet footer, follow these steps:
1. In the File menu click Page Setup. The Page Setup window will open.
2. Select the Header/Footer tab.
3. Click the Custom Footer button. The Footer window will open.
As you can notice the footer is divided into three sections; left, center and right. Above those sections there is a [...]
The way you calculate the difference between two times depends on the way you want to present your results:
1. Present the result in standard time format (hh:mm:ss).
Simply subtract the two times from each other and format the result cell as time.
Examples:
A1 = 9:15:00
B1 = 14:07:20
Difference = B1-A1 = 4:52:20 (4 hours, 52 minutes and 20 [...]
To extract day, month or year from a date, you use the corresponding Excel built in function for each one of these date parts.
Day: Day(mydate).
Month: Month(mydate).
Year: Year(mydate).
Examples:
Suppose you have in cell A1 (formatted as date), the date:15/11/2009 (ddmmyyyy), Then:
Day(A1) will result in 15
Month(A1) will result in 11
Year(A1) will result in 2009
Applies [...]
This step-by-step article shows you how to calculate the number of months between any two dates.
To calculate the number of months between any two dates, use one of the following methods. Note that both methods use the following information:
• EDate = Earlier Date
• LDate = Later Date
NOTE: If you type LDate or EDate directly into this formula [...]
If you want to get the current date and time in a cell then you can do one of the following:
1. To get the current date only use the TODAY() function.
Syntax
=TODAY()
2. To get the current date and time use the NOW() function.
Syntax
=NOW()
3. To get the current time only use the NOW() function, and then format [...]
A few months ago a user asked this question in Excel Help Forum:
If you have two columns, is it possible to have column B put in the date that data was added to column A?
I have replied to the question in the forum at that time, and I have noticed since then that other users [...]
If you want the number of months occurring regardless of the day of the month then continue reading. If you want to calculate ‘whole month intervals’ by considering the day of the month, then check this post.
To calculate the number of months between two dates, there are two possibilities:
1. Both dates occur in the same [...]
To calculate the difference or the number of days between two dates, you simply subtract one date from the other.
Example (using format:dd/mm/yyyy):
Suppose you have the date 25/11/2007 in cell A1 and the date 15/01/2008 in cell B1 (both cells formatted as date). To calculate the difference between these two dates you use the following formula:
=B1 [...]
If you want to format a date with month in upper case, then hear is how you do it:
1. The general format for getting the month in three character is this:
=TEXT(cell_reference,”mmm”)
2. To get upper case you enclose the TEXT function within the UPPER function as follows:
=UPPER(TEXT(cell_reference,”mmm”))
So if we have a date in cell A1 for [...]
Excel provides a vast number of common date formats. However if you do need a format that is not included in the built-in list then you can create your own custom format as follows:
Right-click on the cell where the date is.
Select Format Cells.
When the dialogue box opens select the Number tab.
In the Category list to [...]
