When you're setting up a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that contains date information, you'll speed your task if you let Excel do the tedious work of filling in columns of individual date entries.

A custom AutoFill series is a list of values you enter frequently. This list might consist of employee names, department names, and so on. The problem is that you enter them over and over. You can ...

Use Excel’s Autofill to generate a series of dates Your email has been sent Microsoft Excel 2002 and 2003’s Smart Tag feature makes it easy to insert a series of dates into a worksheet. For example, ...

Let’s say you have student information in a worksheet where students’ last names, first names, and ID numbers are in Column A. If you want their first name and last name to appear in Column B, you ...

Q. I know that Excel has this marvelous function—called AutoFill—that quickly and easily fills a series of cells with a progression of values. But I have trouble evoking it. Can you help me? And while ...

My copy of Excel (XP) occassionally won't display the "short cut menu" when you drag a series to "autofill" it. (I.E. the date)<BR><BR>Since it doesn't appear (sometimes), I can't choose to fill in ...