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 Today() function represents the current date in Microsoft Excel. If you type the =Today() function in any cell and press Enter, Excel will show you the current date. Therefore, this method is used ...

If you've ever started up a Mac that sat unplugged for long enough to discharge the battery that backs up its memory of the current date and time, you've seen the date January 1, 1904, replace the ...

Conditional Formatting in Excel can be considered a valuable utility that can help visually enhance the data analysis and presentation in the spreadsheet by applying particular formatting based on pre ...

How to easily include dynamic dates in a Word doc using Excel Your email has been sent Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a ...

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000, which is the only version that explains how this function works.

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