How to Automatically Insert the Date Onto a Spreadsheet. Microsoft Office Excel offers many tools and processes for automating actions in spreadsheets.

Instead of manually writing the date in one of the cells, you can use a keyboard shortcut to insert the current date into your Excel spreadsheets.

This tutorial shows the steps to use Automatic Data Type in Microsoft Excel. It allows you to insert details of cities, food items, music, animals, persons, etc, automatically.

The automatic conversion function of Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet software, automatically converts some inputs, such as numbers and dates, into specific types of data.