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Shortest Formula for returning Number of Days in the month of "given date"

Column "A" = Given Date (for example>2-Feb-2014) Column "B" = No. of days required in the month of given date (for example=28) Date = No. of days in that month |1-Apr-13 =30 | |4-Jul-14 =31 | |9-Jan-01 =31 | |4-Aug-12 =31 | |2-Feb-14 =28 | |9-Dec-14 =31 | |8-Aug-11 =31 | |4-Feb-12 =29 | |1-Apr-13 =30 |

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Question added by Ahmed Aziz , Software Development & Testing , Innernet, Inc.
Date Posted: 2014/03/26
Hussain Marzooq
by Hussain Marzooq , human resources manager , Etc

=DAY(DATE(YEAR(A1),MONTH(A1)+1,1)-1)

Ashfaque Deshmukh
by Ashfaque Deshmukh , System Administrator , Qatari Diar

Try this   =DAY(EOMONTH(A1,0))

Kashif Sherazi
by Kashif Sherazi , Divisional Finance Manager , Almarai

Dear Friend

 

Use following formula if your date is in Cell E6

=(EOMONTH(E7,0))-(EOMONTH(E7,-1))

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Kashif Manzoor Sherazi

Omar Siddique
by Omar Siddique , Senior Sales & Operations Manager , Talya Tourism LLC

Eomonth(A1;0)-A1

Howida Elrasheed Awad Elkareem Mohammed
by Howida Elrasheed Awad Elkareem Mohammed , Project Associate( Administration) , United nations Development programme(UNDP)

use this formula

=DAY(DATE(YEAR(A2),MONTH(A2)+1,))

 Also i found this channel on youtube very usefeul for the ultimate usage of excel,

https://www.youtube.com/user/ExcelIsFun

good luck

FITAH MOHAMED
by FITAH MOHAMED , Financial Manager , FUEL AND ENERGY CO for transportion petroleum materials

 

simply formula is 

= Eomonth(A1;0)-A1

because eomonth determine the last day in the month  serial- the  date in cell a =

days required in the month of given date 

 

note :

better formate column B as number