You can set up conditional formatting in Excel for dates. We have included detailed examples you can try while reading the guide.

How to Auto-Format the Date in MS Excel. When you create Microsoft Excel spreadsheets that contain one or more columns of dates, you can make things a bit easier if you pre-format your cells to ...

Learn how to highlight dates before today and a specific date with and without using the Today() function in Microsoft Excel.

Excel for the web now supports conditional formatting, and the interface is easier to use than the desktop edition. Susan Harkins shows you how to use it.

Open the Excel 2010 file that you want to make format changes to. Select the top-left cell in the range of cells that you want to change to the accounting format.

It's easy to change the date format in Microsoft Excel. You just need to use the "Date" drop-down menu, which gives you plenty of options.

Applying the same formatting to each sheet in an Excel workbook is ideal when each of your sheets is set up the same, but it can be helpful in other circumstances as well.