IS THERE A FORMULA TO CALCULATE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN DATES

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Alohalady

Does anyone know of a formula that will calculate how many days are from one
date to another? For example from March 30 to April 8. This is for the
purpose of getting the average amount of days for processing. Your help is
highly appreciated.
I am using Exel 2003.
 
In Excel, dates are numbers, 1 per day, starting at 1-1-1900 (roughly).
So if the start date is in A1 and the end date is in A2, this gives you the
number of days between them:

=A2-A1

Important! Format as Number, not as Date (which is what Excel does
automatically, trying yo be helpful, in vain)
 
Does anyone know of a formula that will calculate how many days are from one
date to another? For example from March 30 to April 8. This is for the
purpose of getting the average amount of days for processing. Your help is
highly appreciated.
I am using Exel 2003.
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A date is a whole number. If you have one date in A1 and the other
in B1 then the number of days is
=A1-B1
or
=B1-A1

Depending on what else is going on, you might have to change the
formatting of that cell to Number.
 
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