How to Automatically Insert the Date Onto a Spreadsheet. Microsoft Office Excel offers many tools and processes for automating actions in spreadsheets.

You can insert or add Header and Footer in Excel spreadsheet using this tutorial. Insert page number, current date and time, etc.

Launch Microsoft Excel 2010 and open the spreadsheet you want to edit. Select the worksheet for which you want to insert the page number. Click the "View" tab on the upper side of the Excel window.

You may need to add cells in Google Sheets if your spreadsheet needs to contain more information than it currently has room for.

Numbers has the ability to open Excel files so you can work on them. You can also export spreadsheets in Numbers so that they are compatible with Excel.