Note that Excel changes the equal sign to a formula that references the cell in the workbook that has the date. Press "Ctrl-Shift-Enter" to finalize the link between the workbooks.

Normally, Excel recalculates formulas automatically whenever you change a cell that’s part of the formula. But if you turned off automatic recalculation, you can still do it manually by pressing F9.

Set Current Date in Excel The easiest way to add the current date in Excel is to simply type the date. For instance, typing "2018-07-31" in a cell is automatically detected as a date.

To pull data from another sheet in Excel, use cell references, use the VLOOKUP function, or use the INDEX and MATCH functions.

This example will demonstrate how to automatically transfer multiple columns in one sheet to another when the value in one of the fields is "Yes". The value of the conditional field can be changed as ...

Microsoft has announced a beta version of Excel that allows pivot tables to automatically update themselves when data is changed.