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.

When you create Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that contain one or more columns of dates, you can make things a bit easier if you pre-format your cells to display date information the way you want it to ...

Excel already knows when the month ends.

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.

Excel's data validation feature is more versatile than you might think. Learn how to use literal values, input values, list values, and even formulas to restrict input date values using data ...

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, ...