Working with large Excel files is sometimes a daily task when you run a small business. Excel spreadsheets can contain anything from plain text and numbers to dates and percentages. Excel also enables ...

Mary Ann Richardson explains that when concatenating date and text cell data in an Excel formula, you need to convert date cells to text to avoid unexpected results. When concatenating—using a formula ...

If you would like to improve your Excel workflows and spreadsheets and in the process save a huge amount of time you might be interested in mastering Excel date functions. Once mastered this knowledge ...

Learn essential date functions in Excel from beginner to pro in this tutorial. You'll discover how to calculate the number of working days between two dates and convert project timelines from months ...

In response to the August Technology Q&A topic “Dating Problems, Part 3” (page 85), reader Daniel Warco, CPA, (controller for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Washington) sent me a ...

Q. When I paste a large amount of data into Excel containing dates as far back as the 1800s, the recent dates display correctly as valid dates, but the older dates automatically convert to text. I ...