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 ...

Excel already knows when the month ends.

If you need to calculate dates in your spreadsheets, Excel uses its own unique system, which it calls Serial Numbers. Every date (month, day, year) and time (hour, minute, and second) has an ...

Subtraction is the easiest way to count days between two dates in Excel. You can use the arithmetic operator – (minus sign) to subtract one date from another to find the number of days between them.

Excel’s SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions came to mind as I was watching a 1969 film called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium, about American tourists on a whirlwind tour of ...

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.