When you add a date, it uses a predefined format. Even though you need a format like 02/08/2021, Excel Online and Google Sheets may use something else, like 08-02-2021.

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 ...

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 ...

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

There, you'll see the various date formatting options you can select to force Excel to see your value as a date.

Susan Harkins shows you how to combine a function and conditional formatting to highlight weekends and holidays using Excel.

If you need a monthly or yearly balance for revenue transactions in Microsoft Excel, you're in luck because both are easy! Here's how to find the totals you need.