Today() Formula in Excel
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A common excel formula that can come in handy in many projects with Excel is the Today() Function. The Today() Function is used to return the serial number of the current date. By formatting the cell where the formula is used, it will return the Month, Day and Year of today. One of the easiest functions in Excel to use, here is the formula:
=Today()
Since today is June 5, 2007, the formula will return 6/5/07 since it is automatically formatted in date format. If you were to change the formatting to a number, the formula would return the serial number 39238 (If you are wondering what this number stands for, it is the number of days from January 1, 1900 – Tomorrow the serial number returned would be 39239)
There are many places in your projects you will be using the Today() function, from showing the date your spreadsheets were last updated to calculated how many days from today a deadline is. Once you learn to use this function regularly it will be a function you can’t live without.
Over the next few posts, I will be adding many example of how to use the numerous date and time functions built into excel. Please contact us with any questions or suggestions you may have.
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