Microsoft Excel's Month and Weekday functions output numeric values for a given date. The Month function results in the month numbers, such as "3" for March or "12" for December.

If you would like to improve your Excel workflows and spreadsheets and in the process save a huge amount of time you might be interested in mastering Excel date functions. Once mastered this ...

How many days? Excel doesn’t offer a function that returns the total number of days in a specified month, and before EOMONTH () came around, an expression to do so was complex.

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, but we've selected the most popular, from date and time functions to mathematics and simple data manipulation.

This month’s column shows how to use the remarkably versatile AGGREGATE function in Excel.