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Working with dates

Build confidence with date math, business days, deadlines, and other practical date workflows.

Intermediate 12 exercises
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Exercises in this track

1

Days between dates

Calculate how many days between order date and ship date.

DAYS DATEDIF NETWORKDAYS
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2

Build a date from separate parts with DATE

Use the DATE function to combine separate year, month, and day columns into a proper Excel date.

DATE YEAR MONTH
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3

Extract date parts from a date

Extract month, day, and year values from a date column.

MONTH DAY YEAR
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4

Making an always up-to-date copyright message

In this exercise, we’re going to use the TODAY function, the YEAR function and the CONCATENATE function to create an up-to-date copyright message. The...

YEAR TODAY CONCATENATE
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5

Calculate age from birthdate

Calculate an employee's current age from their date of birth.

DATEDIF TODAY YEAR
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6

Date difference in months

Calculate employee tenure in months.

DATEDIF YEAR MONTH
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7

Find end of month with EOMONTH

Use EOMONTH to calculate the payment due date at the end of the following month for each invoice.

EOMONTH EDATE DATE
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8

Calculate project review dates

Calculate review dates by shifting a shared kickoff date by whole months and moving weekend results to the next business day.

EDATE WORKDAY WORKDAY.INTL
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9

Calculate business days between

Calculate the number of business days between order and delivery.

NETWORKDAYS WORKDAY WORKDAY.INTL
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10

Next business day

Calculate the next business day from each invoice date.

WORKDAY NETWORKDAYS WORKDAY.INTL
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AVERAGEIFS with date range and category

Calculate average deal size by product category for a specific fiscal quarter.

AVERAGEIFS SUMIFS COUNTIFS
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Dynamic date range SUMIFS

Sum all sales from the last 30 days.

SUMIFS SUMIF COUNTIFS
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