When you're setting up a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains date information, you'll speed your task if you let Excel do the tedious work of filling in columns of individual date entries.

Excel 2007's new table feature eliminates the need to copy formulas; once you define a data range as a table, Excel will do it for you! Tables are new to Excel 2007 ...

Use Excel’s Autofill to generate a series of dates Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel 2002 and 2003’s Smart Tag feature makes it easy to insert a series of dates into a worksheet. For example, ...

Auto Fill is a feature in Excel that fills cells with data that follows a sequence and creates a string of numbers, dates, and days to apply formatting from one cell to adjacent cells. The Auto Fill ...

Microsoft Excel's Formula by Example helps automate repetitive tasks in structured tables in Excel for the Web. The tool is similar to Flash Fill, though it generates dynamic formulas that update with ...

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.

1. Drag the Fill Handle of a single cell to copy that cell. The Fill Handle is at the bottom right of any selected cell or group of cells. 2. Drag the Fill Handle of a cell containing January, Jan, ...

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 ...