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

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

However, it’s easy to grab your attention with a format that alerts you to the due date. In this article, we’ll use conditional formatting to highlight due dates.

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.