Q. When I paste a large amount of data into Excel containing dates as far back as the 1800s, the recent dates display correctly as valid dates, but the older dates automatically convert to text. I ...

Managing date lists in Excel can often feel repetitive and time-consuming when done manually. However, Excel provides a range of powerful tools to streamline this process, allowing you to save time ...

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 response to the August Technology Q&A topic “Dating Problems, Part 3” (page 85), reader Daniel Warco, CPA, (controller for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Washington) sent me a ...

Excel’s Date & Time functions ease the workload for bookkeepers, project planners, HR departments, and other jobs where time is money. The four functions covered here—ISOWEEKNUM, WEEKNUM, WORKDAY, ...

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.