As you create Excel spreadsheets for your small business, time and date functions frequently add both convenience and programming capability to your workbooks. There's good news with date functions.

Excel’s SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions came to mind as I was watching a 1969 film called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, about American tourists on a whirlwind tour of ...

When you enter a number into an Excel cell that looks like a date, such as "Jun-1" or "6/1," Excel automatically adjusts the format of the cell to display a date, so you may not know that Excel ...

Custom formulas let you dictate exactly what goes into cells.

If you need to calculate dates in your spreadsheets, Excel uses its own unique system, which it calls Serial Numbers. Every date (month, day, year) and time (hour, minute, and second) has an ...

If you would like to improve your Excel workflows and spreadsheets and in the process save a huge amount of time you might be interested in mastering Excel date functions. Once mastered this knowledge ...

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 ...

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 ...