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

Calculate the difference between two values in your Microsoft Excel worksheet. Excel provides one general formula that finds the difference between numbers, dates and times.

A TechRepublic member wrote for advice on calculating the years, months, and days elapsed between two dates. This tutorial explains the solution provided by TechRepublic contributor Jeff Davis.

Either way, counting the number of records that fall between two dates is easy using the COUNTIFS () function (which isn’t available in Excel 2003 or earlier).

If you need to count or calculate number of Leap Years between two dates in Excel or list of two dates in Excel, make use of this formula to get things done.

You already knew that Excel can do straight date math, but it can also take into account holidays to find the number of working days between two dates.

Click the drop-down arrow in this area and choose either of the two "Date" options. The long number in the cell with transform a date, which will be the midpoint between your two given dates.