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You may want to insert tomorrow's date into a cell in your worksheet. This is easily done by simply creating a formula that includes the function for today's date, as in the following:
=TODAY() + 1
This formula first determines today's date, and then adds 1 to it, resulting in tomorrow's date. (The date is dynamic, meaning that it always represents tomorrow; when today's date changes, the result of the formula changes.) You can then use Excel's formatting features to display the resulting date in any manner desired.
Besides displaying tomorrow's date, you can modify the formula to display a date at any time in the future. Simply change the formula so the desired number of days are being added to today's date. For instance, if you wanted to determine a date two weeks in the future, you could use the following:
=TODAY() + 14
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2015-02-17 00:28:08
David
How to insert this in Word 2010?
2014-05-12 14:21:54
Hamid Ahmad
Hi Allen, great website and priceless information. Thought I would share my favourite use of the today function an similar. A lot of times you want to only use business or working days. So if you wanted to the next day that is a business/working day "=workday(today(),1,holidays)" Breakdown of the syntax is workday(start date - use today() for todays date or reference a cell or enter a date, numerical value for number of days from the start date you want "1" would one business day away, use a negative value to find the previous business day, and you can enter a named range containing holidays so it will treat those dates same as Sat/Sun). Et voila, you can calculate just business dates for your reports et al.
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