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Microsoft Excel Number of Days in a Month

If, for example, you want Microsoft Excel to calculate the number of days in a date, then you can use the following formula:

=DAY(DATE(YEAR(B2),MONTH(B2)+1,1)-1)

Where B2 is the cell with the date you want to calculate total days in the month for.
Here is a snap shot of what I mean:

Excel-Days-in-Month

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Capes - November 29, 2009 at 6:52 pm

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Microsoft Excel: Removing Hyperlinks From Cells

Removing hyperlinks from cells can be tricky in that you can trigger them when you don’t intend to. So what is the best way to remove them?

  1. Select a cell not to far from the cell with a hyperlink
  2. Use your arrow keys to navigate to it
  3. press CTRL+X, a shortcut to cut the contents of the active cell
  4. from the Edit menu to find Paste Special
  5. a dialog box should appear, here select Unformatted Text

Job done!

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Capes - November 13, 2009 at 10:04 pm

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How to Reveal File Extensions on your Windows PC

If you have a PC for a while there may come a point were you need to see your file extensions. For those not familiar with what a file extension is, its the 3 or 4 alphanumeric characters proceeding the dot (or ‘period’ ), e.g. for Microsoft Word document files can end in .doc, or .docx, the doc and the docx are the file extensions. Other common file extensions include .jpg, .mp3, .gif.

So this how do you go about getting your PC to reveal them:

Open My Computer, go to the Tools menu and scroll down to Folder Options… select the View tab. Under Advanced settings, uncheck the check box for Hide extensions for known file types, then press the OK button to confirm the change.

Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Capes - November 9, 2009 at 4:52 pm

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