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

For example, Excel will automatically choose the date format for a cell that contains 11/11/19. You can set Excel to display dates in a variety of ways, no matter how you type in the data.

Use Microsoft Excel's TODAY() function in simple expressions to highlight the current date and past and future dates.

The TYPE function is an information function in Microsoft Excel, and its purpose is to return a number indicating the data type of a value.

Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge.