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.

How Date and Time Serial Numbers Are Generated in Excel The serial numbers for dates in all modern versions of Microsoft Excel start at 1 for January 1, 1900, increasing with each subsequent day.

When you think about serial communications, Microsoft Excel isn’t typically the first program that springs to mind. But this spreadsheet has a rather powerful scripting language hidden away i… ...