DATEVALUE is a Date and Time function, and its purpose is to convert a date in the form of text to a serial number. In this post, we will show you how to use the DATEVALUE function in Microsoft Excel.

The Text to Columns functionality divides text contained within a solitary column into multiple columns using a designated delimiter, such as a comma or space. This even holds true for dates formatted ...

Excel's data validation feature is more versatile than you might think. Learn how to use literal values, input values, list values, and even formulas to restrict input date values using data ...

Many Microsoft Excel sheets store date and time values. Sometimes the two values appear in the same cell, and sometimes they do not. If you work with dates and/or times, you need a good understanding ...

Excel’s SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions came to mind as I was watching a 1969 film called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, about American tourists on a whirlwind tour of ...

As you create Excel spreadsheets for your small business, time and date functions frequently add both convenience and programming capability to your workbooks. There's good news with date functions.

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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