How Excel Stores Dates? | Excel Date Serial Numbers Explained for Beginners

Click the mentioned below link and you will be directed to Excel Shortcut Guide and Excel Course Roadmap. A sheet in which you will find the list and link of all the videos uploaded till now. https://drive.google.com/drive/folder... In this video, we will understand an important concept about Dates in Microsoft Excel — how Excel actually stores and calculates dates. You may see a date such as 01/01/2026 on your screen, but Excel internally stores that date as a serial number. Understanding this concept will make it much easier to work with dates and perform date calculations in Excel. In this video, you will learn: ✅ How Excel stores dates as serial numbers ✅ Why entering 1 and formatting it as a date shows 01/01/1900 ✅ Why 2 becomes 02/01/1900 ✅ How a date can be converted back to its serial number ✅ How Excel calculates the difference between two dates ✅ How to add days to a date ✅ How to subtract days from a date ✅ How Excel stores time using decimal numbers ✅ How 0.25, 0.5 and 0.75 represent different times of the day ✅ Understanding the relationship between Date + Time and Excel serial numbers ✅ Why understanding this concept is important before learning Excel Date & Time Functions 📌 Excel Version: Microsoft Excel 365 This video is part of the Excel From Scratch To Sky – Complete Excel Learning Roadmap. After understanding this concept, we will move on to the practical Excel Date & Time Functions, including DATE, DAY, MONTH, YEAR, TODAY, NOW, DATEDIF, EDATE, EOMONTH, NETWORKDAYS and more. 📂 The latest Excel Learning Roadmap and practice files are available in the description. #Excel #MicrosoftExcel #ExcelForBeginners #ExcelBasics #ExcelDates #ExcelDateFunctions #ExcelTips #LearnExcel #Excel365 #ExcelTutorial