Time and Date

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Time Diff

In many cases you will get business problems where you need to add or subtract month/year from a given date. Can you show how to do that in excel?

Answer

This can be done easily using the DATE function. The below formula will deduct a month, similarly one can change the year and date.

=DATE(YEAR(A3),MONTH(A3)-1,DAY(A3))