Saturday, 20 March 2021

Excel Hack - Quickly Get a Date in a Cell

Here's a quick Excel hack for you.  If you frequently have to type dates in cells on a spreadsheet, simply hold down the ctrl (control) key and press the semi-colon key.

On the image below the Ctrl key is highlighted in white:












...and here's the semi-colon key:












(Note: This is a UK QWERTY keyboard).

So here I could get a load of dates in column A, simply by holding ctrl pressing and releasing the semi-colon key, release ctrl then pressing Enter!  It took about 2 seconds!













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