DAY Function

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Purpose of the Function

The Excel DAY function returns the day of the month as a number between 1 to 31 from a given date. You can use the DAY function to extract a day number from a date into a cell.

Syntax

• serial_number : This is the date from which you want to extract the day. It can be a cell reference containing a date, a date entered directly into the function, or a function that returns a date.

Practical Example

Step -01 : Call DAY Function :

Select the Cell, Which You Want to Apply the Function and Write DAY Function =DAY in Selected Cell.

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Step -02 : Enter DAY Arguments :

We need to Select the cell Which you want to extract the DAY from the date within the Brackets.

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Step -03 : Hit The Enter Key :

After Entering the Function, we need hit The Enter Key, The Excel returns the Day from The Selected Date Cell

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Step -04 : Drag or Double Click in the Plus Sign (+) :

If You Drag Your mouse In the Bottom of Right Corner E2 Cell. You Are Able To See Plus Sign (+), If you Double Click in The Plus Sign (+) The Excel Automatically returns the Day From The Selected Date Cells OR Click On Plus Sign (+) And Drag Up to Last Cell

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The DAY function is useful when you need to isolate and work specifically with the day portion of a date in Excel, such as performing calculations, filtering data based on days, or organizing information by day within a dataset.

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Advance Excel 365

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Introduction to Microsoft Excel

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• What is Excel 365
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Excel Formulas and Functions

Mathematical Functions

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• SUM Function
• AVERAGE Function
• MAX Function
• MIN Function
• ROUND Function
• SUMIF Function
• COUNT Function
• COUNTA Function
• COUNTIF Function

Date And Time Functions

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• NOW Function
• TODAY Function
• YEAR Function
• MONTH Function
• DAY Function
• HOUR Function
• MINUTE Function
• SECOND Function
• TIME Function

Text Functions

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• CONCATENATE Functions
• LEN and MID Function
• TRIM Function
• TEXT Function
• LEFT Function
• RIGHT Function
• UPPER Function
• LOWER Function
• PROPER Function
• REPT Function
• EXACT Function

Logical Functions

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• IF Function
• VLOOKUP Function