Excel DAY Function. The Excel DAY function returns the day of the month as a number between 1 to 31 when given a date. You can use the DAY function to extract a day number from a date into a cell. You can also use the DAY function to feed a day value into another formula, like the DATE function.
Distinguishing characteristics of an op-ed or column. Partly, a column is defined by where it appears, but it shares some common characteristics: Typically, it is short, between 750 and 800 words. It has a clearly defined point. It has a clearly defined point of view.
After you find your peg, the most important rules of op-ed writing are brevity, brevity, and brevity: 1  Brevity of article--Few papers print op-eds longer than 800 words, and some limit them to as little as 600. 2  Find out your paper's limit and write your article within five or ten words of that length.