How to increment dates by months, years, or days in Excel?

Incrementing dates in Excel is a common task, but the default Autofill handle only increases dates by one day. If you need to increment dates by a specific interval - such as one month, two years, or seven days - this tutorial provides practical solutions.

Increment date by months/years/days with Fill Series utility

Add months/years/days to date with formula

Add months/years/days to date with Kutools for Excel

Increment date by months/years/days with Fill Series utility

With the Fill Series utility, you can increment date by 1 month, 1 year or a week.

1. Select a blank cell and type the starting date.

2. Select a range including starting date, and click Home > Fill > Series. See screenshot:

3. In the Series dialog, do the following options.

1) Specify the filling range by rows or columns.

2) Check Date in Type section.

3) Choose the filling unit.

4) Specify the increment value.

4. Click OK. The selection will now be filled with dates incremented by months, years, or days.

Add months/years/days to date with formula

If you want to add months, years or days to a date or dates, you can apply one of below formulas as you need.

Add years to date, for instance, add 3 years, please use formula:

=DATE(YEAR(A2)+3,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2))

To add months to a date, for instance, to add 2 months, use the following formula:

=EDATE(A2,2)

=A2+60

Tip:

When you use the EDATE function to add months, the result will appear in general format as a serial number. You need to format the result as a date.

Add months/years/days to date with Kutools for Excel

With Kutools for Excel's Date & Time Helper, you can quickly add months, years, weeks, or days to a date.

1. Select a blank cell which will place the result, click Kutools > Formula Helper > Date & Time helper, then select one utility as you need from the list. See screenshot:

2. Then in the Date & Time Helper dialog, check Add option, and select the date you want to add years/months/days into the textbox of Enter a date or select a date formatting cell section, then type the number of years, months, days, even weeks into the Enter numbers or select cells which contain values you want to add section. You can preview the formula and result in Result section. See screenshot:

3. Click OK. And drag the fill handle over the cells you want to use this formula. See screenshot:
 

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