They can be called a series.
Yes it does, for dates from the 1st of January 1900, but not before that.
No. Dates and times are stored as numbers in Excel.
Text will align to the left and numbers and dates align to the right.
Validation is the feature that can limit what is entered into cells in Excel.
Excel right aligns dates within a worksheet because it treats dates as numbers.
You can have text, numbers, dates, times, Boolean (True/False) and formulas.
It stores data. Mainly that data is numbers, but it can also be text, dates or logical data. Excel also stores the formulas that are entered and the formatting of data that is entered.
Dates are actually stored as numbers in Excel, so you are seeing exactly how it is stored, rather than how it looks with its formatting applied.
For text it would be left-aligned. Numbers, dates and times are normally right-aligned.
It means typing something as text, numbers, dates etc. into a cell, but excludes typing in formulas.
valueslabelsformulafunctionYou could say text, numbers and dates.
Ascending is an order in which things can be sorted. Ascending would be going from A to Z or lowest to highest numbers or earliest to latest dates.