Time is Flying By

As you may know, just over 10 days ago I opened the doors to my Using Dates and Times online course. I hope you've taken the opportunity to check it out, as the course provides all the info you need to discover how to slice, dice, and otherwise manipulate dates and times in your workbooks.

This is a low-cost video course that shows you, on-screen, how your data is entered and interpreted by Excel. I demonstrate in a hands-on manner how you can use that knowledge to allow you to work with dates and times just as easily as you would work with any other numeric data in the program.

You can find complete information on the course here:

https://usingoffice.com/dates-and-times/

Please take the opportunity to check it out. I'm only accepting students in this course through this coming Thursday, so you'll want to act quickly so you don't miss out.

I hope you enjoy the tips in this week's issue of ExcelTips.

—Allen
     

ExcelTips (menu) for 12 July 2025
Worksheet tabs
Sheets for Days

Need a quick way to have a worksheet for each day in a month? Here's a macro that makes the worksheet creation a snap.

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Excel can calculate at lightening speed
Adding Graphics to a Header or Footer

Excel makes it easy to add graphics to a header or footer, as long as you are using at least Excel 2002. Here's the steps to make it happen.

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Date formulas
Calculating the Day of the Year

Need to know what day of the year a certain date is? You can figure it out easily using the formulas in this tip.

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Powerful spreadsheets
Dates with Periods

You may want Excel to format your dates using a pattern it doesn't normally use-such as using periods instead of slashes between the day, month, and year. Here's how you can get the format you want, plus some comments on making that format the default for dates.

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