Excel Formula: Add or Subtract Days to Date
In Excel, you can use formula to add or subtract a specific number of days to the current date (today) or a future or past date.
Adding days
Generic formula:
| date+days |
Arguments
| Date: the date you used to add days or subtract days. It cannot be text, or the formula returns #VALUE! error. |
| Days: a number represents the number of days you want to add or subtract from the given date. It cannot be text, or the formula returns #VALUE! error. If it is a positive number, the formula will add days, if the argument days is a negative number, the formula will subtract days. |
How this formula work
To add 49 days (placed in cell C3) to the date placed in cell B3, please use below formula:
| =B3+C3 |
Press Enter key to get the result.
Notes:
1. If the result is a serial number, click Home > Format Number drop down list to select Short Date or Long Date to format the result as date.
2. If you want to directly enter date and days in formula, please combine the DATE function in to the formula as below screenshot shown:
=DATE(2020,1,25)+49
3. If you want to add or subtract days to the current date, you can use the formula as this:
=TODAY()+49
4. In Excel, date is stored as serial number for better calculation. In default, 1 indicates Jan 1, 1900. Thus, you can directly add days to a serial number to get a date. As 25/1/2020 is 43855 days after Jan 1, 1900, you can use the formula like this:
=43855+49
Then format the result as date.
Sample File
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