How To Use: EDATE Function

EDATE function in Microsoft Excel adds specified number of months to a date and returns the result as a future or past date.

It is an inbuilt function of Excel which falls in the Date /Time Function Category.

The EDATE function returns a date which is a specified number of months before or after a supplied start date in a cell.

You can use it as a worksheet function. As a worksheet function, you can enter the EDATE function as a part of a formula in a cell of a worksheet.

Syntax for the EDATE function

=EDATE(start_date, months)

Arguments

start_date: The starting date to use in the calculation.
months: The number of months to add to the start_date. It can be a positive or negative value.

We have created the infographics for EDATE Function. This is a step by step process to for learning excel functions easily.

Excel consists of many inbuilt functions which are helpful in the analytical and statistical study of number.

Simply follow the instructions in the infographics below:

EDATE function is quite smart to give you the same date in future and past. It doesn’t matter that there are 31 days, 30 days or 28 days in a month. You just have to mention the date and number of months.

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