If you work with Google Spreadsheets everyday you must be already familiar with some Google sheets tips and tricks that can improve your productivity and make your life much easier.
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If we lived some hundred years ago with no means for improving our life we would have to draw the lines on the wall to calculate the number of days like Robinson Crusoe did. Luckily we live in the modern world where all these actions can be performed by cloud technologies.
In today’s article I am going to tell you about one of my favourite Google sheets formulas that I use in my daily work. This formula will help you to calculate how many days you have left till the vacation.
You need to set up 2 dates in 2 different cells. One will be for today, the other for the day when your vacation will begin (if you have planned it already).
For today use the formula “=TODAY()”. Then the date will change every day.
For calculating the number of days left use the formula:
=DATEDIF(start_date, end_date, unit)
For unit put in “D” to count days.
You can use the same formula to calculate the number of days between any two dates, not only for today.
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