BeginnerDate & Time
Assemble a delivery date with DATE
Turn separate year, month and day columns into a real date Excel understands.
DATE
5 min15 points
DATE practice exercises
Builds a date from separate year, month and day values. Below are 1 interactive exercise that put it to work on realistic business data — you write the formula, and get told exactly what went wrong when it does not work.
Syntax
DATE(year, month, day)
Need a refresher? Learn DATE — syntax, a worked example and where it goes wrong.
Practise DATE
Ordered from most approachable to hardest.
When DATE is the right tool
Builds a date from separate year, month and day values. It belongs to the date & time family, and it shows up constantly in real work — which is why it is worth being genuinely fluent rather than merely familiar.
Reading about a function is not the same as being able to write it. The exercises on this page exist because the gap between recognising DATE and producing it from memory, correctly, on data you have not seen before, only closes by doing it.
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Questions about DATE
How do I practise DATE without Excel installed?
Every exercise on this page runs in your browser. You type the DATE formula into a real spreadsheet grid and get told immediately whether it works — no download, no account.
What does DATE do?
Builds a date from separate year, month and day values. The syntax is DATE(year, month, day). The exercises below put it to work on realistic business data rather than abstract examples.
How long does it take to learn DATE?
Most people can write a working DATE formula within twenty minutes of practice. Getting it right under pressure — with edge cases, unsorted data and ranges that must survive being filled down — is what the harder exercises here are for.