Excel Formula: Count Days from Today
This tutorial provides the best formula to calculate the difference between a date and today in Excel.
Syntaxt and Arguments
|Date: the date that is used to count the number of days from today.|
The formula returns a numeric value.
Whether the given date is a past date or future date, it returns a positive value.
How this formula works
To count the days between today and the specific date in cell B3, please use below formula:
Press Enter key to get the result.
Then drag auto fill handle over other cells to apply this formula as you need.
TODAY function: returns the current date.
ISBLANK function: returns TRUE if the cell is empty, or return FALSE if the cell is not empty.
IF function: performs a simple logical test depending on the comparison result, and it returns one value if a result is TRUE, or the other value if the result is FALSE.
Here the formula IF(ISBLANK(B3),"",TODAY()-B3)
If ISBLANK(B3) returns TRUE, then the IF formula returns empty, if ISBLANK(B3) returns FALSE, then the IF formula returns TODAY()-B3.
ABS function: returns absolute value of a number.
1. If you want to return future days as positive value, past days as negative value, use the formula as
2. If you want to return future days as negative value, past days as positive value, use the formula as
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