As you create Excel spreadsheets for your small business, time and date functions frequently add both convenience and programming capability to your workbooks. There's good news with date functions.

Product IDs, serial numbers and other reference numbers require a unique identifier to avoid confusion when referencing a product or specific data point. Although you can manually enter unique numbers ...

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 ...

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000, which is the only version that explains how this function works.

How to automatically fill increment cells in Excel using the Autofill function How to automatically fill increment cells in Excel using the formula Interestingly, we don’t even need a formula for this ...

Excel’s Date & Time functions ease the workload for bookkeepers, project planners, HR departments, and other jobs where time is money. The four functions covered here—ISOWEEKNUM, WEEKNUM, WORKDAY, ...