The final function calculates the differences in months and days without the years and shows the date with “d.” Now you know how to calculate age in Excel. Please only use your powers for good.

Highlight today in Microsoft Excel. While you probably won’t want to wait until a due date to start a project, highlighting the current date can help alert you when timing is essential.

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000. It's fallen off current Excel menus, but you can still use it.

How to get a yearly balance in Excel Our simple data set has transactions for only one year, 2020, but that doesn’t matter. We can expect only one balance for the data set.