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.

Putting a date stamp on your spreadsheets helps you organize your business documents more efficiently. Instead of manually writing the date in one of the cells, you can use a keyboard shortcut to ...

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 ...

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 ...