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.

In many cases, you want people to enter a valid date, and no other type of information, when they're putting data into a cell in Microsoft Excel. For example, you might be asking people to record days ...

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 ...

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How to Use TODAY() to Highlight Fast-Approaching Dates in an Excel Sheet Your email has been sent Use Microsoft Excel's TODAY() function in simple expressions to highlight the current date and past ...