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When you apply cell formatting in Microsoft Excel, you quickly standardize how dates and other kinds of data appear in individual cells, workbooks and spreadsheets. After you assign the cell type ...

In many cases, you want people to enter a valid date, and no other type of information, when they're putting data into a cell in Microsoft Excel. For example, you might be asking people to record days ...

Microsoft Excel is a popular spreadsheet software that allows users to perform various tasks, including organizing and analyzing data. One useful feature of Excel is the ability to assign serial ...

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Last week I explained how Excel uses its own, unique system of serial numbers to calculate dates and times. That piece covered nine Date & Time functions: NETWORKDAYS(), DATEVALUE(), NOW(), DAY(), ...

Excel is a powerful software that can do more advanced tasks than you may imagine. You can get Excel to automatically update the date in your Excel document each time you open it. Learning how to ...