Today’s Timestamp (TODAY)
Syntax: TODAY()
This useful function returns the timestamp to the current day. For example, on January 3, 2010:
=TODAY()
returns 40181.
Figure 12-4. Sample result of the TODAY function
You can use this function in a worksheet that calculates mortgage payment schedules for your clients. Instead of typing in a new date into a formula calculating mortgage payments, put TODAY into the start date values and it will save you a lot of time. You can be even more inventive and add or subtract a certain number of days to construct even more flexible formulas:
=TODAY()+30
This formula will regenerate the timestamp for a ...
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