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.
How this formula works. Dates in Excel are simply serial numbers that start on 1/1/1900. In the example, the formula in cell D6 simply subtracts the numeric value of 1/1/1999 (36161) from the numeric value of 1/1/2000 (36526) to get a result of 365.