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.

The Today() function represents the current date in Microsoft Excel. If you type the =Today() function in any cell and press Enter, Excel will show you the current date. Therefore, this method is used ...

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DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000, which is the only version that explains how this function works.