Microsoft is testing out a new =COPILOT function in Excel cells – it's in beta with improvements needed, but you can try it now.

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.

Excel is a very handy tool for working with data. It has many built-in features, like conditional formatting, which helps you to format and highlight data based on certain rules. The rules can be ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.