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The document provides instructions and information about working with dates in Microsoft Excel. It discusses how dates are stored as numbers representing the number of days since January 1, 1900. It also describes how to format dates in Excel using built-in formats like short date or long date, or using a custom format with date parameters like d, m, and y. The document provides examples of custom date formats and how they display the same date differently.

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The document provides instructions and information about working with dates in Microsoft Excel. It discusses how dates are stored as numbers representing the number of days since January 1, 1900. It also describes how to format dates in Excel using built-in formats like short date or long date, or using a custom format with date parameters like d, m, and y. The document provides examples of custom date formats and how they display the same date differently.

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COMP212 – Computer Fundamentals and Programming

Activity 6 – MICROSOFT EXCEL - PRACTICAL EXERCISE


EXERCISE 7:
In Exercise 7, students create a Microsoft Excel file.
Create an excel file containing the following data:

Save your work as “CE212 _SECTION_ACT6E7_LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME-MI.xlsx”


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MODULE 6

Date Format in Excel

What is a date in Excel?

In Excel, you can display the same date in many different ways just by changing the date format.

Dates are whole numbers

Usually when you insert a date in a cell it is displayed in the format dd/mm/yyyy.

Now if you change the cell's format to Standard, the cell displays 42370.

Explanation of the numbering

In Excel, a date is the number of days since 01/01/1900 (which is the first date in Excel).

So 42370 is the number of days between the 01/01/1900 and 01/01/2016.

Date format

Dates can be displayed in different ways using the following 2 options (available in the Number Format
dropdown in the main menu):
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Customize your date format


You can write the same date in different formats like this:
• 01/01/2018
• Jan 2018
• Mon, 1 Jan 2018
• …
Date parameters
A date has 3 parameters
• d for the day
• m for the month
• y for the year
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How to customize a date?


To customize a date:
• Open the dialog box Custom Number (with the shortcut Ctrl + 1 or by clicking on the menu More
number formats at the bottom of the number format dropdown)
• In this dialog box, you select 'Custom' in the Category list and write the date format code in 'Type'.

To format a date, you just write the parameter d, m or y different number of times. For example, dd/mm/yyyy
will display the 1st of January 2016 as 01 Jan 2016. By entering the codes 1,2,3 or 4 times, the display will be
different.
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Different examples of custom date


Here, you have different examples of display with the same date.

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