Microsoft Excel Formatting and Time Saving Tricks

I was helping out my co-worker with an “Introduction to Excel” class today. My job was to walk around and make sure no one is lost. But while I was in the class, I did learn a few new things. Let me share with you some nifty tips I got from the class.

Autofill of Days
This trick just made me smile. I’m not much of an Excel user, so this really amused me. First, type in the word Monday in a cell like in this image:

Now on the lower corner of that cell, left click, and drag the cursor down.

This will then display the words Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, etc. in the next cells.

Nifty huh?

Another trick, if you go in a cell and press Shift+:. This will put the date in the cell. And if you press the three keys Shift+Alt+:, it’ll display the time. ;) So you learn something new everyday. ;) Have fun playing with Excel!