We show you how to use Excel to count days between two dates using the DAYS, DATEDIF, NETWORKDAYS, and TODAY functions, and Subtraction.

Excel makes it easy to find how many days there are between two dates. With a little more effort, you can find the number of days in which people will be actually working.

How to exclude holidays in Excel So far, we’ve used NETWORKDAYS () to exclude weekends when counting the number of days between today and the estimated completion date for our projects.

Use Microsoft Excel's TODAY() function in simple expressions to highlight the current date and past and future dates.