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Yes they can be. A lot of calculations are done on dates, like finding out how may days there are between two dates.

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How many days old are you if you were born September 25 2000?

Actually, the answer changes from day to day. - You can do date calculations in Excel. Just put two dates in two different cells; in a third cell, subtract the two dates. The difference between two dates, in Excel, is the number of days elapsed.


How do I get rid of weird dates in Microsoft Excel 2007?

If you do not like how the dates are formatted, then change the date format of the cell to whatever style you would like to display.


What are examples of formatting in Excel?

Having numbers shown in particular ways. 3 is an unformatted number €3.00 is it formatted as currency. 300% is it formatted as percentage. You can have text formatted, by having it in different sizes or fonts or colours. Dates can be formatted in different ways, like having them just as numbers or as a mix of words and numbers: 5/3/15 5-Mar-2015 Things can be bolded or underlined or in italics. So there are lots of ways things can be formatted. Formatting also includes the size and shape of cells, and the colours used.


In Excel templates can contain what?

They can contain anything an ordinary document in Excel can. So cells may be pre-formatted. There may be text or dates or numbers etc. already in some cells. There may be some formulas there. Cells may have borders and shading. Basically the template is done in such a way that the user can open it and just put in what they need, with everything else being there already so that they don't have to repeat a structure that they may use on a regular basis.


When is day 1 in Excel in PC?

All dates on Excel have a numeric value. The 1st of January 1900 has the value of 1. All dates are counted off from that date. By giving dates numeric values, it is possible to do calculations with dates, like finding how many days are between two dates.


Which Excel feature can be utilized to only allow the input of certain data such as dates times or numbers?

Validation is the feature that can limit what is entered into cells in Excel.


In spreadsheets cells may be formatted to suit many different data like date and time currency number etc?

Yes, that can be done. For example, in Excel, the main data types seem to include dates, text, and numbers - plus various formats for special cases, such as to show percentages.


In what format does Excel store dates?

They are actually stored as numbers, where dates are represented by the amount of days since the 1st of January 1900 inclusive. So the 1st of January 1900 is stored as 1. By storing them as numbers it makes doing date calculations, like finding out the amount of days between two dates, very simple. Dates can then be formatted to be displayed in many different ways, showing numbers or words and using the styles of dates used in different parts of the world.


What is interesting about Excel?

Excel is the most versatile of all the applications. There is so much you can do with it. It is mainly for working with numbers, but you can do a lot more with it too. It can be very useful for big businesses, but also the ordinary person who wants to do some simple calculations on it. You can do interesting things with dates, like showing what day of the week you were born on by using functions like WEEKDAY or formatting dates to show a day. You can do special things with conditional formatting, to change the formatting of cells allowing you to highlight cells. There is so much more it can do. You would need somebody who knows a lot about it to teach you to do the interesting things with it.


What does the DAYS360 function inside excel do?

It returns the amount of days between two dates based on a year of 12 months with 30 days. It is a method used for some calculations in the accounting business.


How is it possible for Excel to perform caculations on date values?

Dates are stored as numbers, starting from the 1st of January 1900, which would have the value 1. This means that you can add numbers to or subtract numbers from dates to give you new dates. You can subtract an earlier date from a later one to see how many days are between them. So you can use dates in calculations. It is best to put the dates into their own cells and do the calculations that way. However, it is possible to put dates directly into formulas, but the must be enclosed in quotation marks to ensure the slashes are not used as divisions symbols. This formula will work: ="01/01/15" - "31/10/14"


How do you add two months if both or equal in excel 2007?

You can add the values of two cells that have dates or months, but adding dates doesn't serve any useful purpose.