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 ...

When you use Microsoft Excel to store and analyze business data, your workbooks and worksheets often contain date information. Although your original data may need to display full month, day and year ...

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.

The simplest way to add an apostrophe before a date in Excel is to type it directly before the date when entering it in a cell. This method works best when you’re dealing with a small number of ...

Trying to use an Excel Date and Time function, but Excel returns a serial number instead of date; this is because Excel stores dates and times in serial numbers in the backend; for instance, when you ...

In Microsoft Excel, learn how to report time values by the hour using the underlying date serial value. Grouping records by dates or time is easy in Microsoft Excel, but it doesn’t make a great report ...

Excel spreadsheet databases work because users can filter the data inside these workbooks. Filters are conditions you specify in databases and spreadsheets to extract only the precise, requested ...

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, from simple mathematics to very complex statistical, logical, and engineering tasks such as IF statements (one of our perennial favorite stories); ...

Last month, we used conditional formatting to highlight holidays in a matrix-style calendar; we added this enhancement to an earlier article that used conditional formatting to highlight weekends. By ...

Left to its own devices, Excel will convert your fractions into dates as soon as you enter them in your spreadsheet. See how you can work around this problem. If you don’t apply a fraction format to a ...