How to calculate days or hours between two dates or times In Word document?

Normally, we can calculate the number of days between two dates in Excel worksheet quickly and easily, but, have you ever tried to get the number of days between two given dates in a Word document?

Calculate difference between two dates in Word document with VBA code

Calculate difference between two times in Word document with VBA code

Calculate difference between two dates in Word document with VBA code

To calculate the number of days between two given dates, the below VBA code can do you a favor, please do as this:

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. And then, click Insert > Module, copy and paste below code into the opened blank module:

VBA code: Calculate difference between two dates

Sub CalculateDateDifference()
    Dim xStartDate As Date
    Dim xEndDate As Date
    Dim xDay As Long
    On Error Resume Next
    xStartDate = InputBox("Enter the start date", "KuTools for Word", "")
    xEndDate = InputBox("Enter the end date", "KuTools for Word", "")
   If (InStr(1, Str(xStartDate), ":") > 0) Or (InStr(1, Str(xEndDate), ":") > 0) Then
        MsgBox "please input current date", vbInformation, "KuTools for Excel"
        Exit Sub
    End If
    xDay = DateDiff("d", xStartDate, xEndDate)
    MsgBox "There are " & xDay & " days left from " & xStartDate & " to " & xEndDate & vbCrLf, vbInformation, "KuTools for Word"
End Sub

3. And then, press F5 key to run this code, in the consecutive dialog boxes, enter the start date and end date that you want to use, see screenshot:

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4. Then, click OK button, and you will get the result that you want, see screenshot:

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Calculate difference between two times in Word document with VBA code

Here is another VBA code which can help you to calculate the difference between two given times, please do as this:

1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.

2. And then, click Insert > Module, copy and paste below code into the opened blank module:

VBA code: Calculate difference between two times

Sub CalculateTimeDifference()
    Dim xStartDate As Date
    Dim xEndDate As Date
    Dim xTime As Long
    Dim xHour As Long
    On Error Resume Next
    xStartDate = InputBox("Enter the start time", "KuTools for Word", "")
    xEndDate = InputBox("Enter the end time", "KuTools for Word", "")
    Debug.Print Str(xStartDate)
    If (Str(xStartDate) = " 0:00:00") Or (Str(xEndDate) = " 0:00:00") _
    Or (Str(xStartDate) = " 12:00:00 AM") Or (Str(xEndDate) = " 12:00:00 AM") Then
        MsgBox "please input the time", vbInformation, "KuTools for Excel"
        Exit Sub
    ElseIf xStartDate > xEndDate Then
        MsgBox " The start time is not larger than the end time!", vbInformation, "KuTools for Excel"
        Exit Sub
    End If
    xTime = DateDiff("s", xStartDate, xEndDate)
    xHour = xTime \ 3600
    xTime = xTime - xHour * 3600
    MsgBox "There are " & xHour & " hours " & xTime \ 60 & " minutes " & xTime - (xTime \ 60) * 60 _
            & " seconds left from " & xStartDate & " to " & xEndDate & vbCrLf, vbInformation, "KuTools for Word"
End Sub

3. And then, press F5 key to run this code, in the consecutive dialog boxes, enter the start time and end time that you want to use to calculate difference, see screenshot:

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