When you're setting up a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains date information, you'll speed your task if you let Excel do the tedious work of filling in columns of individual date entries.

Auto Fill is a feature in Excel that fills cells with data that follows a sequence and creates a string of numbers, dates, and days to apply formatting from one cell to adjacent cells. The Auto Fill ...

Unlike incrementing a whole number, incrementing the month of a date requires a little more effort in Excel because the calendar months have varying numbers of days. Microsoft gives you a couple of ...