Comments on: How to insert dates in Excel - add today's date, auto fill a column with dates

This tutorial demonstrates various ways of entering dates in Excel. See how to insert today's date and current time as static or dynamic values, how to auto populate a column or row with weekdays, and how to auto fill random dates in Excel. Continue reading →

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  2. can you help please
    I'm trying to do a training matrix on execel, however I want to have renewal dates generated automatically in each course for each member of staff alerting when the training is next due
    ie
    Mary went on course on 21/8/18 and the renewal date is every 3 years,21/8/21
    I want to create that when I put in date she went on course below will automatically give renewal date.
    any help gratefully received. Thank you

  3. I am looking to get the date for every Tuesday and Thursday in each week listed down in the same column, obviously whilst keeping them all in date order, any ideas? much appreciated.

  4. Thanks! I didnt know this trick with auto populate, drag the corner. Will save me lots of boring time when i do my time reports :-)

  5. Hi! I tried the following the formula below:

    =IF(B2="yes",IF(C2="",NOW(),C2),"")

    but it returned 0/1/1900 0:00.

    I hope you can point out what's the problem.

    Thanks and Regards!

  6. Hi,
    I tried your following formula is ok

    =IF(B2="yes", IF(C2="" ,NOW(), C2), "")
    but i want TO B2=YES & B2=OK THEN CREATE DATE.
    PLEASE SEND ME FORMULA

  7. Im wondering how to enter current date in 80,000 columns in a1 without dragging. Can any suggestion me?

  8. Hi,
    I tried your following formula but it NOT SHOWING DISPLAY

    =IF(B2="yes", IF(C2="" ,NOW(), C2), "")

    Appreciate if you can point out where the problem could be.

  9. Thank you. Loved it.
    Many more things to learn.

  10. Thank you in advance . I ask about how to create fixed time & date through time stamp I need date & time no change for every open or close for excel sheet

  12. Hi Svetlana

    sorry to disturb with small but teasing problem

    Tried to ask friends and surf net … ;(

    Where to look ?

    It seems my computer wants (mac e 2011 and High Sierra.)
    to show dates in decimal ???

    Also in Format Cell it gives sample 1.1.1904 or 1900 depending which tick is in calculations box.

    Näyttökuva 2018-6-6 kello 11.34.43.png

    In my mind I have not changed anything in excel or mac. problem continues

    Would appreciate a hint what now.

    Cheers form Finland

  13. Auto day to day update DATE in excel work sheet

  14. Hi,

    I have an existing sheet having date and time filled automatically when i enter the serial number in A cells and go to B cell the date and time automatically fills in B. Can you please tell how to make it happen. since i want to make another sheet of same kind.

    Thank you

    Faizan

  15. Thank you- this site is amazing - was able to fix the problem I had so quickly and now have a shortcut to use continuously.

  16. Hi,

    If I have a date of 1-Mar-18 in a cell and want to auto calculate the 4 weeks in the month, how do I do so? I want to be able to input the month and year and have the work weekdays auto populate

  17. If I give the date in Excel sheet the day has to be updated accordingly. Can you guys please let me know the formula.

    Example: if I enter 2/27/18 then Tuesday has to be updated.

    1. Hello, Yash,

      If your task is to get a day of the week from your date 2/27/18, please enter one of the following formulas in the adjacent cell:

      =TEXT(A1, "ddd")

      =TEXT(A1,"dddd")

      Where A1 is the cell that contains your date. The first formula displays the short form of the day, i.e. Tue, and the second formula returns the full day name, i.e. Tuesday.
      Please also note that the day names you'll get after applying the above formulas will have the text format.

      Hope this is what you need.

  18. I have a series of cells (7-11) that when the task completed I put a date into that cell. I have a % cell that I want to show the % completed. Example: I have 7 total cells and 3 show the date completed and % of the total is 21%. How can I shoe the % automatically?

  19. Hi,
    How to cress the date automatically.
    For example if the
    A1 column contains todays date (01/01/2018) then A2column/B1row should contain the next days date (02/01/2018) but the next days date should not be displayed in the sheet for today (01/01/2018)

    Can anybody please help me with this??

  20. Thanks Dear

  21. Hi please help,
    Im same formula apply but time not peck always shown 00:00 or 12:00:00

  22. hi! so i am making a graph and the dates are not lining up with what I inputted into. ie
    26-Sep
    29-Sep
    03-Oct
    06-Oct
    10-Oct
    13-Oct
    17-Oct
    20-Oct
    25-Oct

    but it gives me every two days from the start date, just wondering how i could fix that.
    thank you for your time

  23. Can I insert the start date of year in cell .. A1 then show me the end date of year in cell A2
    Ex.
    A1=1/1/2017 A2=18/01/2017

  24. My Excel does not run as yours, my date fills or automatically re-copy a single date all the way down of the spread block, or if I choose two consecutive dates as my starting block then it simply fills automatically, but increments only the year...

    What do I have to set or reset?

  25. By the way, great site.
    In Excel, I have the date in one cell (05/09/2017) and in another cell I have the time (01:43:00 PM).
    How can I combine both these to show, for example:
    05/09/2017 01:43:00 PM
    in the one cell so I can do date and time arithmetic?
    I have set up a custom format (ddd, mmmm dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss) to display the result already.
    Many thanks.....

    1. Hello, Greg,

      supposing that A1 contains date and B1 - time, use the following formula:
      =VALUE(A1)+VALUE(B1)

      If you need to combine them with the format, please try the following:
      =TEXT(VALUE(A1)+VALUE(B1),"ddd, mmmm dd, yyyy hh:mm:ss")

  26. I'd like a formula to auto fill dates in a column....say c7-c26 when I manually change a "week ending" date in e4

  27. I want to know how to add date and day in same cell.
    Like 08-08-2017 : TUESDAY

    Please help

  28. i want to put multiple chooses not only YES like YES,NO,LATER

  29. Hi,

    I am trying to Highlight the dates in excel if expire date is today and tomorrow and Past date should be red and Day after tomorrow it should be amber
    Also it has to check the cell is empty or not Is this possible, and if so, how do I do it please?

  30. Hello, if I enter a specific date into a cell, how do I get it to autopopulate automatically in the following cells, then also show the day of the week on the calendar below?

  31. How can I enter like this SATURDAY 01 JULY 2017 in excel 2007 with DATE FORMAT so that I can autofill the full month like SUNDAY 02 JULY 2017 MONDAY 03 JULY 2017

  32. How do I enter all dates from today till say next 20 years or infinite years.

  33. Hi,
    When I am converting a date time column to the name of the day by using the custom dddd function, the column is showing the day name (like Wednesday) but it's reading it as the same date time (when I click on day name the top space is showing the date time. So, I am unable to separate weekdays and weekends as during filtering its showing numbers and not texts.

  34. HOW CAN I CHANGE DATE & TIME AUTOMATICALLY WHEN I OPEN EXCEL SHEET ?

  35. Hi Svetlana,

    I have lists of people with their dates of birth, and I want a second column to automatically calculate their ages without having to update them all manually. Is this possible, and if so, how do I do it please?

    Cheers

  36. time should change automatically in excel. Any formula for that Action.

    1. =now()

  37. hi Svetlana Cheusheva
    m vijay
    i use excel spreadshit fir entering lots of nmbers and party names date etc can u tell me solution i want to ask
    1. how to autofill when iinsert party name then pary pace automatically in next coloumn

    2. if i save my document then can u tell me each time when i save documrnt then save other place in specific path and where i work in that current old sheet is there like previous means when i save document then its automatically save another place where i want but my current formate is there like privous

    mail me solution

  38. How would I go about having row 1 be double dates in series for as long as I drag, i.e. 1 June, 1 June, 2 June, 2 June, 3 June 3 June. So every 2 columns are the same date?

  39. My excel inserted a row when I pressed CTRL +...OH WELL

  40. Hi,
    I want to link word file to excel is it possible if yes then ow it is possible i want to share data excel to word if its possible please guide me. Thanks

  41. Greetings,
    Hi would like to know from You
    I Set date in my excel book and i want a formula that work with date for example
    today 1-1-2017 and my figure is 100
    next day when i open my log date will be 2-1-2017 and figure turn to 200 automatically.
    Please help for this issue

  42. Can I insert the start date of year in cell .. A1 then show me the end date of year in cell A2
    Ex.
    A1=1/1/2017 A2=31/12/2017

  43. Hi All,

    I am currently working a excel formula to input a Revision_Date in column A then it will auto generate the number of days per month(only weekdays) on column B(January), column C(February) and so on depending on the current date. Example if today is April 17, 2017 and my input in Column A is Feb 13, 2017, it will compute number of days from Feb 13 to Feb 28 (which is 12 days) to be generated on Column C(Feb). Then on March which is complete since it covers the whole month until today on Column D(Mar). Then comes to April to compute the days from April 1 to April 16 on Column E(Apr). Can someone help me as I am really not familiar with excel. Hoping someone can share any formulas/techniques on how to do it. Thanks in advance.

    1. Hi, Gerry,

      for us to be able to help you better, we need to see how the columns are named and arranged. Please, send us an example of your workbook with the source data and the result you want to get to support@ablebits.com.

  44. Hi All,

    I am currently working a excel formula to input a Revision_Date in column A then it will auto generate the number of days per month(only weekdays) on column B(January), column C(February) and so on. Can someone help me as I am really not familiar with excel. Hoping someone can share any formulas/techniques on how to do it. Thanks in advance.

  45. I write a date in a column and want to automatic update of date when I open the sheet in next days. how can I do this.

    1. Hi, vinod,
      if you want the document to show you "today's date" (e.g. the date of your working with the file), try using the following formula:
      =TODAY()

  46. I generate reports on a daily basis, in cell AH60 I have =NOW() In Cell I56 i have =AH60 formatted to read yymmdd. What I want to be able to do is have it read yymmdd-### (ex.170331-001) with the number of my choosing to generate a report number. how can i add it. If tried to make it in the custom area but it keeps telling me its an invalid format...HELP!!! Please

    1. Hi, Daniel,
      unfortunately, custom settings won't help here, try using something like the following in the cell:
      =TEXT(I56,"yymmdd")&"-"&ROW()
      You can change the last parameter to make it return whatever you wish. Hope it will be of use!

  47. Hi,
    i want to create a form for multiple employee for stock inventory. so i want if any employee enter his emp.code than his last balance auto show in excel form and if he give material request then automatically calculate from his last available balance.

    Can you help me please

  48. Using the + (plus) symbol does not work. (I used the + symbol on my numeric keypad.) Rather, using the = (equal) symbol works fine.

  49. How do you put the current (automatically updating) date in the footer of an excel document, not in numbers but in words (example March 24, 2017, instead of 3/24/2017)?

  50. Hi,
    I tried your following formula but it returned 0/1/1900 0:00

    =IF(B2="yes", IF(C2="" ,NOW(), C2), "")

    Appreciate if you can point out where the problem could be.

    Thanks and Regards

    1. Hi, Sunny,

      to help you with your task, we need to know what you entered into the cells. You can try to explain here in more details, or send us a small sample workbook with your source data and the result you expect to get to support@ablebits.com. Don't forget to add the link to this article and your comment.

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