…Excel's data validation tool, located on the…Data tab in the ribbon, gives us tremendous…tools for working with data, and on a date basis and time basis where needed.…Let's imagine a company is starting up here and they're already taking orders.…The entries in column A are valid dates in 2013.…Let's say, for a while, in this file, they want to…make sure that the only entries here come from this year.…There's no rule in place right now, but we want to make sure that…any order date that appears in column A is out of the year 2013.…
Now, many, many times but certainly not always when you're working with data…validation, selecting the entire column is the right and most efficient thing to do.…So clicking column a and then on the data tab going to the feature data validation.…We're going to establish a setting here, not…to allow just any value here but, a date.…And immediately what pops up is the option for between.…We can certainly use that but let's say in this case…we might want to how about equal to greater than less than.…
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4/10/2014- Describe the default settings Excel has in place for dates and times.
- Identify keystroke shortcuts to insert dates and times into a cell.
- Explain how to create a custom date format.
- Recognize the functions used to calculate time intervals that include restrictions.
- Recall the keystroke shortcut to apply a general format that reveals the real information in a cell.
- Define the purpose of the Text to Column tool.
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome54s
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1. The Excel Date and Time Systems
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2. Creating Date and Time Entries
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Instant date and time entry1m 28s
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3. Date and Time Formatting
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Custom date formatting3m 8s
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Keystroke shortcuts2m 3s
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4. Date and Time Functions
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5. Calculating with Dates and Times
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6. Using Dates and Times with Excel Commands
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Conclusion
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Next steps24s
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