In the example shown, the formula in D5 is: When you have a valid date in Excel, you and just add days directly. Day values can be positive or negative. For example, with a date in A1, you can add 100 days like so: In the example shown, the formula is solved like this: When formatted as a date, 36868 is December 8, 2000.

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