Excel may return a serial number instead of a date; because it is stored thus in the backend. Learn how to convert Serial Number to Date.

In Microsoft Excel, if you select cells containing a date or time and apply the General number format, this generates what appear to be random numbers. In fact, these numbers are anything but ...

A serial date, on the other hand, is a numerical value that represents a date in Excel. Both serial numbers and serial dates can be useful for data analysis, sorting, and filtering.

Microsoft's office software Excel is a powerful tool to perform day-to-day activities with, like simple arithmetic, sorting, filtering, arranging and summarising data in various formats. Excel has a ...

All businesses need to calculate dates and times for payroll, expenses, inventory and more. We show how Excel turns dates into serial numbers for easier calculations, and we discuss Networkdays ...