How to utilize date add function in Google spreadsheet?

Question

I believe the issue I am having now should be much easier in MS Excel. However, since my company uses Google Spreadsheet so I have to figure out a way.

Basically, I have

Answer 1

As with @kidbrax's answer, you can use the + to add days. To get this to work I had to explicitly declare my cell data as being a date:

A1: =DATE(2014, 03, 28)

A2: =A1+1

Value of A2 is now 29th March 2014