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 ...

Last month, we used conditional formatting to highlight holidays in a matrix-style calendar; we added this enhancement to an earlier article that used conditional formatting to highlight weekends. By ...

Whether you’re tracking sales, managing budgets, or analyzing trends, the challenge of pulling out meaningful insights from an Excel spreadsheet can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. But ...

Excel is a very handy tool for working with data. It has many built-in features, like conditional formatting, which helps you to format and highlight data based on certain rules. The rules can be ...

Excel is one of the most popular Office applications, if the email I receive from readers is any indication. This month, two Excel users asked for guidance using two of Excel's most popular features - ...

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.

Have you ever found yourself endlessly dragging that little Excel fill handle, trying to populate rows or columns with numbers, dates, or formulas? It’s tedious, time-consuming, and let’s be ...

Excel functions, or formulas, lie at the heart of the application’s deep well of capabilities. Today we’ll tackle IF statements, a string of commands that determine whether a condition is met or not.