Use either keyboard shortcuts or the NOW and TODAY functions to display the current date and time in Excel and Google Sheets spreadsheets together.

Use Microsoft Excel's TODAY() function in simple expressions to highlight the current date and past and future dates.

Do you want to know the number of days between today and a date in the past or future? We show you to subtract a date from today in Excel ...

Static time stamps display today's date or time when you set it, without changing it later. Finally, you can set dates and times manually using the spreadsheet's Date formatting options.

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000. It's fallen off current Excel menus, but you can still use ...

Using Excel as a scheduling tool is a great skill to have under your belt. Learn how to use SUM, DATE, WEEKDAY, IF, Nested IF, and IF/OR functions.

Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge.