Create a Date Range in Excel

While working in data where you have dates, you might have to create a range of dates. A range is something that has a start date and an end date. In this tutorial, you will learn to create a date range.

Create a Date Range Starting from Today

Now let’s say you want to create a date range of seven days starting from today. In the following example, we have today’s date in cell A1 which we have got by using today’s function.

=A1+7

To create a date range, follow these simple steps:

1. Enter the “=” in cell B1, or any other cell.
2. Refer to cell A1, where you have the starting date of the range.
3. Use the “+” sign to add days to today’s date.
4. Specify the number of days you want to add to today’s date.

Create a Date Range in a Single Cell

Let’s go a little further and create a date range in a single cell. And for this, we need to combine both starting date and the ending date in a single cell. But the problem is when you try to combine two dates within a single cell it returns something like the below.

Now to overcome this problem we need to use the TEXT function to convert dates into text and then combine them as a range of dates. The formula would be something like the one below.

=TEXT(A1,"dd/mmm/yy")&" --- "&TEXT(B1,"dd/mmm/yy")

Now as you can see, we have a range of dates in cell C1 starting from 8-Feb-22 to 15-Feb-22. And if you want to create a range of dates in a single cell, you can use the following formula.

=TEXT(TODAY(),"dd/mmm/yy")&" --- "&TEXT(A1+7,"dd/mmm/yy")

In the part about using the TEXT function, you can change the format of the date the way you want.

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