When you enter a number into an Excel cell that looks like a date, such as "Jun-1" or "6/1," Excel automatically adjusts the format of the cell to display a date, so you may not know that Excel ...

Are you calculating how many years and months have passed since your hire date by subtracting dates and manually converting the number of days into years and months? You can get this result instantly ...

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 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 ...

Is Microsoft Excel too complicated? It doesn’t have to be. Excel uses formulas to pull in information to a single cell from others around it. These works like Excel shortcuts making life easier. If ...