
When you type something like that in a cell, Microsoft Excel knows you are entering a date and automatically applies the date format to that cell. You can type a date in an Excel cell in a variety of ways, for example, or, or 1-Jan, or January 1, 2015. Insert a date in Excel via a drop-down calendar (Date Picker).
Add dates as a series that increases by one day. Formula to insert today date & current time as unchangeable time stamp. Functions to insert today's date that updates automatically. Shortcuts to show today's date and current time (time stamp). If you are curious to know how Excel stores dates and times, please check out part 1 of this tutorial - Excel date format. In a moment, you will learn all these and a few more date entering techniques. For example, do you want to enter a today's date in some report or invoice? Or, perhaps you want to insert a date in Excel that will update automatically and always display the current date and time? Or, maybe you want to auto fill weekdays or input random dates in your worksheet? There are several ways to add dates in Excel depending on what exactly you want to do. See how to insert today's date and current time as static time stamp or dynamic values, how to auto populate a column or row with weekdays, and how to auto fill random dates in Excel. This tutorial demonstrates various ways of entering dates in Excel.