Excel automatically recognizes common formats, such as "3/17/2012," "Mar 17, 2012" or "17 Mar 2012." Use the Month function to extract the month number from a referenced cell.

Formulas are powerful tools for performing calculations and analyzing data in Excel. In this beginner’s guide, you’ll learn how to use formulas and explore some popular built-in functions.

How many days? Excel doesn’t offer a function that returns the total number of days in a specified month, and before EOMONTH () came around, an expression to do so was complex.

This month’s column shows how to use the remarkably versatile AGGREGATE function in Excel.

The EOMONTH function in Microsoft Excel returns the last day of a month in the past, the current month, or a month in the ...