When you enter a number into an Excel cell that looks like a date, such as "Jun-1" or "6/1," Excel automatically adjusts the format of the cell to display a date, so you may not know that Excel ...

Keeping data on the number of leap years in a list is important for companies, government offices, and event organizers. If you need to check for the number of leap years between two dates in Excel, ...

Subtraction is the easiest way to count days between two dates in Excel. You can use the arithmetic operator – (minus sign) to subtract one date from another to find the number of days between them.

As a spreadsheet software program, Microsoft Excel has many useful features for a small business's productivity. Chief among these is the ability to use formulas to make various calculations with the ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

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If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...