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.

Unlike incrementing a whole number, incrementing the month of a date requires a little more effort in Excel because the calendar months have varying numbers of days. Microsoft gives you a couple of ...

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 ...