Excel Date Picker From Microsoft In many versions of Excel, you can use a Microsoft date picker control to create an Excel date drop-down in a cell.

Use Microsoft Excel's TODAY() function in simple expressions to highlight the current date and past and future dates.

Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge.

Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.