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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.
Now insert a column just after this column to hold the actual date for use in calculations. Let's say the eight-digit dates were in column A, starting in cell A2. Then you would enter this formula in cell B2 and copy it down the whole column: =DATE(MOD(A2, 10000), TRUNC(A2 / 1000000), MOD(TRUNC(A2 / 10000), 100)) .onfiguring Excel to display date and time digits that you've entered without punctuation is a simple matter of defining the correct custom format. However, changing the formatting doesn't change the actual data. Even when you see 08/21/2007 displayed, Excel will still treat the data as the number 8,212,007.