If Microsoft Excel does not recognize dates, then there is something wrong with the formatting. Use any of the methods mentioned here to format cells perfectly.

Learn how to highlight dates before today and a specific date with and without using the Today() function in Microsoft Excel.

How to Auto-Format the Date in MS Excel. 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 ...

Excel for the web now supports conditional formatting, and the interface is easier to use than the desktop edition. Susan Harkins shows you how to use it.

Calculate the difference between two values in your Microsoft Excel worksheet. Excel provides one general formula that finds the difference between numbers, dates and times. It also provides some ...

It's easy to change the date format in Microsoft Excel. You just need to use the "Date" drop-down menu, which gives you plenty of options.

Excel has over 475 formulas in its Functions Library, but we've selected the most popular, from date and time functions to mathematics and simple data manipulation.

None of the spaces here are required. As you can see in the screenshot below, the formula works without these spaces. You can access an Excel workbook and accompanying video below for combining a ...

Often known as the universal data munging tool, Excel is trying out new options for processing messy text as well as entering it more quickly and accurately in the first place.

Do you use Excel spreadsheets to keep track of your weekly, monthly or annual expenses but find yourself updating all relevant date and content information manually? There is an easier, more effective ...

Copilot in Excel cells is rolling out to Microsoft 365 Copilot beta users in the Insider Program and Beta Channel to start ...