You can use the DAY function to extract a day number from a date into a cell. You can also use the DAY function to extract and feed a day value into another function, like the DATE function. For example, to change the year of a date in cell A1 to 2020, but leave the month and day as-is, you can use a formula like this: See below for more examples of formulas that use the DAY function. Note: in Excel’s date system, dates are serial numbers. January 1, 1900 is number 1 and later dates are larger numbers. To display date values in a human-readable date format, apply a number format of your choice.
Notes
The date argument must be a valid Excel date. The DAY function returns #VALUE! if date is not valid.
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