Set Current Date in Excel The easiest way to add the current date in Excel is to simply type the date. For instance, typing "2018-07-31" in a cell is automatically detected as a date.

How to Add Payroll Hours & Minutes in Excel. Excel considers dates and times as numbers in cells, making calculation difficult. Excel processes 6 AM as "0.25," because it is one quarter of the way ...

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

Bookkeepers, project managers, HR departments and more use the Excel Date & Time functions WEEKNUM, ISOWEEKNUM, WORKDAY, WORKDAY.INTL to calculate time. Here's how.