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.

How to subtract in Excel using cell references You don't have to subtract numbers in a single cell; you can also set up a formula that will subtract the values stored in multiple cells.

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.