February 2002
Beginner
328 pages
10h 47m
English
Content preview from Microsoft Excel X for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide
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Date and Time Functions
Excel's date and time functions are designed specifically to work with dates and times. I tell you about the most useful ones here.
| You Enter | Excel “Sees” |
|---|---|
| 10/15/02 | 36082 |
| 6/30/61 | 21000 |
| 2:45 PM | 0.61458333 |
| 10:02:35 AM | 0.41846065 |
| 1/1/1904 | 0 |
| 12:00 AM | 0 |
Tips
Excel treats dates and times as serial numbers. This means that although you may enter information as a date or time— like 10/15/02 or 2:45 PM—Excel converts what you type into a number for its own internal use (see Table 1). A date is the number of days since January 1, 1904. A time is the portion of a day since midnight. Excel's formatting makes the number look like a date or time. I tell you about cell formatting ...
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