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.

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.

Microsoft Excel is without doubt a terrific program and one that is used by many design engineers. However, a couple of its quirks have been annoying me for years. One is the date autoformat and the ...

Emily, a reader who chooses to not provide her last name, is interested in more flexible Excel dating. She writes: I am wondering if there is a way to turn off auto-formatting in Excel so that, when ...