The unit of time in Excel is the Day. By using the NOW Function to show both date and time, you can see the underlying serial number by changing the cell format to General. This serial number is composed of two parts: the date part is the integer and the time part is the decimal. …
In previous posts I’ve been going through some formulas designed to extract and convert a text string Date, to a Date serial number. Extract a Date from Text in Excel The MID Function in Excel The RIGHT Function in Excel CONCATENATE Function or Ampersand Operator in Excel The TYPE Function in Excel The VALUE Function …
The VALUE Function formula in cell G2 has converted the text string Date from cell E2, into a date serial number. =VALUE(E2) Until recently, I always used the VALUE Function to do this conversion. It’s something that’s well documented in the Function Arguments. Excel Value Function Alternative Formulas to Convert Text Dates However, all that’s …
It’s not uncommon for database programs to export data in a text format. I downloaded some data from a web browser, and ended up with Dates that Excel didn’t recognize as Dates, but rather a Text string. In a previous post I used the Text to Columns feature to extract and convert the Month and …
There are times when generating a list of dates comes in handy. Perhaps you need to log something every day for an entire year. Or maybe you’re tracking stock prices and want to skip the weekend and only use weekday dates. How about a list of dates for each week of the year? Or just …
Microsoft Excel has two different date systems that you will probably never think about because they exist in two different worlds: Windows or Mac. However, if you are sharing Excel files between Windows and Mac computers the potential exists for a great deal of confusion around dates. What is a Date System? Dates are represented …