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sandy

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I'm totally fascinated by this site... and I'm really trying to understand these formula equations. I have a question, and figuring this is probably very easy to all of you here, however I'm unfortunately not getting it. Does anyone know what formula can I use to get the total days from two dates? I am using the format 02/25/02. example: 02/25/02 subtracted from 04/02/02 (equals: 36)
 

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On 2002-02-26 03:56, sandy wrote:
I'm totally fascinated by this site... and I'm really trying to understand these formula equations. I have a question, and figuring this is probably very easy to all of you here, however I'm unfortunately not getting it. Does anyone know what formula can I use to get the total days from two dates? I am using the format 02/25/02. example: 02/25/02 subtracted from 04/02/02 (equals: 36)

Sandy,

You can add, substract, average, etc the dates as you would ordinary numbers: So,

=B1-A1

where B1 is a later date than A1, will produce the desired diff in days. You need to format the cell of this formula as General though.

Aladin
 
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Thank you! I kept getting a date in the cell instead of a number. It worked, like you stated, whenever I formatted the cell to general. That's what I was looking for! Thanks again! :)
 
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