3. restricted to a particular condition of life, as certain organisms that can survive only in the absence of oxygen (opposed to facultative). [1400â50; late Middle English obligat (adj.) < Latin obligÄre to bind =ob- ob- + ligÄre; see ligate]
The NOW() function is used to populate the date in Excel using either method. 1  Launch Microsoft Office Excel and click A1 on your spreadsheet. Press F2 and type the following to auto-populate the system date: = NOW() 2  Click the Developer tab and click Visual Basic to open the Visual Basic Editor.
If you use the formula =H11&H12 to concatenate these cells, the result comes back with the serial date (such as, Due Date: 39054). Because Excel ignores the formatting of H12, Excel returns the serial date unless the contents of H12 are converted to text before concatenating, as shown in the following formula: =H11&TEXT(H12, mmmm d, yyyy). The correct result of this formula is Due Date: December 3, 2006.