Using dates

Hi there,

what I at first thought would be quite simple has stumped me. I am looking to find the time spent on a project over the last three years. I have a long list of projects and their start and end date. I need to find the amount of days that these were worked on in the last 3 years.

Name	Start Date	End Date
1	12/03/2014	15/05/2026
2	19/04/2021	05/05/2022
3	01/04/2019	05/09/2021

Some of the projects have worked across the whole period, some worked across a proportion and I need to know the number of days within the last 3 years that they have been active. They are inputted in date format currently.

Please can you help!

Thank you,
Eve

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Excel 2016 (Windows) 64 bit

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
1	Name	Start	End		Name	Start	End	elapsed days
2	1	5/13/2020	7/15/2026		1	5/13/2020	7/15/2026	1095
3	2	1/12/2014	12/21/2022		2	1/12/2014	12/21/2022	947
4	3	9/30/2022	12/12/2024		3	9/30/2022	12/12/2024	230

Sheet: Sheet1

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