Excel’s Date & Time functions ease the workload for bookkeepers, project planners, HR departments, and other jobs where time is money. The four functions covered here—ISOWEEKNUM, WEEKNUM ...

The VALUE function performs the task of transforming numeric text into actual numerical values, extracting these values from a text string, including date values represented as text.

DATEDIF (), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000. It's fallen off current Excel menus, but you can still use it.

How to use EDATE function in Excel In this tutorial, we want to find the dates after several months pass, after each date; for instance, we want to find the date five months after Jan-20-20.

If you have to work with a date stamp in Microsoft Excel that includes date and time, you can use these simple expressions to extract both components, making them easier to work with.