Microsoft Excel 2021365 - Beginner to Advanced - Understanding How Dates are Stored in Excel

This video tutorial explains how Excel handles dates and times. It begins with an introduction to the theory behind dates and times in Excel, emphasizing that they are stored as plain numbers. The tutorial then demonstrates how to apply date formatting to numbers, explaining Excel's date system, which starts from January 1, 1900. It also covers time formatting, showing how times are stored as fractions of a day. The video concludes by summarizing how to make dates and times appear correctly by applying the appropriate formatting.

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