Subtraction methods in Excel aren't the quickest or simplest, but if you need to get it done, we can show you how to subtract in Excel. Here's how.

Learning how to subtract a date from today in Excel can help you find the number of days between a given date and today’s date.

Subtracting isn’t as straightforward in Excel as it seems, simply because there’s no actual command to subtract numbers. Instead, you have to use a formula with the subtraction operator.

Microsoft Excel handles dates as numbers, even though they display as dates -- for example, the date "10/10/2011" is really stored as "40826." This makes it difficult to directly add or subtract ...