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.

It replaced my date-filling workflow, and I'm not going back.

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link When you enter a date that's formatted with slashes, Excel will recognize it as a date. For example, Excel will automatically choose the date ...

If you want to use a date format according to how another language displays dates, choose the language in Locale (location).

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 ...