I can't believe how difficult this seemingly simple task has turned out to be. I need to be able to get a date value stored in an Excel spreadsheet (say, C Temp\file.xls) in cell B28, and put that ...

For way too many Excel users, those spreadsheets are simply a place where numbers go. And that's a shame because this powerful piece of Microsoft software was never meant to turn data entry into ...

Cells in Excel are referred to using relative or absolute references. A formula with relative references changes when the cell's position does. If, for example, a cell has a formula "=A1" and you copy ...