Subtraction is the easiest way to count days between two dates in Excel. You can use the arithmetic operator – (minus sign) to subtract one date from another to find the number of days between them.

Kumar Malyala asked if there’s a way in Excel to count the number of business days between two dates. However, if you don’t want Saturdays and Sundays in your total, you’ll have to work a bit harder.

Microsoft Excel is capable of counting the number of cells that contain numbers, so if there was a time when you chose to manually count cells, then such days are over. That is because it is possible ...