You can set up conditional formatting in Excel for dates. We have included detailed examples you can try while reading the guide.

Learn how to highlight dates before today and a specific date with and without using the Today() function in Microsoft Excel.

There, you'll see the various date formatting options you can select to force Excel to see your value as a date.

Functions are the driving force of any Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, generating a single value or an array of results based on certain arguments you input. However, combining—or nesting—functions ...

Excel conditional formatting made easy! Learn formulas, advanced techniques, and troubleshooting tips to enhance your data analysis skills.

Excel for the web now supports conditional formatting, and the interface is easier to use than the desktop edition. Susan Harkins shows you how to use it.

How to Auto Populate the Date in Excel. 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 ...

It's easy to change the date format in Microsoft Excel. You just need to use the "Date" drop-down menu, which gives you plenty of options.

Dates and times are important on small business reports, but unless you increase the size of these columns, they will not display properly when reports are transferred from JMP to Excel.

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, but we've selected the most popular, from date and time functions to mathematics and simple data manipulation.