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 display date information the way you want ...

You can set up conditional formatting in Excel for dates. We have included detailed examples you can try while reading the guide.

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

How to Reformat a Date in Excel. When you enter a date in one format on a Microsoft Excel worksheet and then want to change the order of the day, month and year, try accessing the Format Cells ...

If you have to work with a date stamp in Microsoft Excel that includes date and time, you can use these simple expressions to extract both components, making them easier to work with.

A row-by-row formatting rule is as easy to apply as a column-by-column in Microsoft Excel, but you might not get the results you thought you would.

Learn three simple formatting tricks to make column headings – or other cells – more readable in Excel.

Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.

You can split cells into columns in Excel using the "Text to Columns" tool, which is a great way to organize lots of data.