Lynda - Excel 2013: Working with Dates and Times

English | Apr 08, 2014 | .MP4 | Audio: aac, 44100 Hz, mono | Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 15.00 fps(r) | 213 MB

Genre: E-learning

Most Excel users incorporate dates and times in their spreadsheets, but getting them to show up the way you want can be difficult.

Excel expert Dennis Taylor shares his solutions for formatting and calculating dates and times in Excel 2013. This one-hour course explains what's going on behind the scenes when Excel stores dates and times, gives tips for entering them, and teaches the options for date and time formatting. It also demonstrates the various date and time functions and shows how to calculate with dates and times in a range of scenarios.

Topics include:

Understanding how Excel records and stores dates and times

Looking at standard date and time entry options and acceptable alternatives

Using the TODAY and NOW functions

Customizing date formats

Using keyboard shortcuts

Formatting time for hours over 24

Calculating differences across dates and times

Calculating the day of the week

Working with holidays

Validating dates

Converting formatted dates to usable data

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