If you've ever started up a Mac that sat unplugged for long enough to discharge the battery that backs up its memory of the current date and time, you've seen the date January 1, 1904, replace the ...

When you apply cell formatting in Microsoft Excel, you quickly standardize how dates and other kinds of data appear in individual cells, workbooks and spreadsheets. After you assign the cell type ...

Excel still trips over dates, ghost links, and undo history. These six fixes would save hours for everyday users.

Microsoft Finally Fixes Excel Glitch That Caused Major Headaches for Scientists Years after introducing Excel's automatic conversion features, Microsoft rolls out an update to prevent it from changing ...

The Text to Columns functionality divides text contained within a solitary column into multiple columns using a designated delimiter, such as a comma or space. This even holds true for dates formatted ...

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.

One of the most popular tasks in Microsoft Excel is filtering dates by month, or another particular criterion. However, there are times when the Excel date filter grouping does not work as intended, ...

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 ...