When you're setting up a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains date information, you'll speed your task if you let Excel do the tedious work of filling in columns of individual date entries.

When you enter a date that's formatted with slashes, Excel will recognize it as a date. For example, Excel will automatically choose the date format for a cell that contains 11/11/19. You can set ...

The Today() function represents the current date in Microsoft Excel. If you type the =Today() function in any cell and press Enter, Excel will show you the current date. Therefore, this method is used ...

How to work more productively online using new conditional formatting options to highlight dates in Excel Your email has been sent Software Installation Policy Five ...

Microsoft Excel is without doubt a terrific program and one that is used by many design engineers. However, a couple of its quirks have been annoying me for years. One is the date autoformat and the ...

Getting a handle on all of the paste functionality in Excel can save you hours of time entering data manually. If you have a date displayed within Excel or in another application, you can copy and ...

Q. When I paste a large amount of data into Excel containing dates as far back as the 1800s, the recent dates display correctly as valid dates, but the older dates automatically convert to text. I ...

Susan Harkins shows you how to combine a function and conditional formatting to highlight weekends and holidays using Excel. Weekends and holidays are important to most of us. Besides enjoying the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. A new setting in Excel gives users control over the automatic data conversion feature that forced scientists to ...