Please note: This item is from our archives and was published in 2001. It is provided for historical reference. The content may be out of date and links may no longer function. A. To enter the current ...

Block bad data, duplicates, and incorrect dates with these custom rules.

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.

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 ...

Excel's data validation feature is more versatile than you might think. Learn how to use literal values, input values, list values, and even formulas to restrict input date values using data ...

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 ...

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); ...

Q: When entering dates in Excel, it would be much simpler if I could enter the date as just the numbers without the forward slash character (for example, 06102010 instead of 06/10/2010). Entering the ...