If there is a date in the cell, it will copied. If the cell is blank, but has date formatting, it will apply date formatting to all cells it is dragged to while also blanking out any content in those cells. If you then type a number into any of those cells, they will show as a date. Remember that dates start from the 1st of January 1900, so typing in a number will convert it to a date counting from that point. So, for example, if you typed in 5, it would put the date as the 5th of January 1900. If you typed in 10000 it will have the 18th of May 1927 as the date.
Excel Checker is an Excel add-on that can find every occurrence of cells containing Data Validation or Conditional formatting and list them out on a separate sheet.
Formatting. There are many ways of formatting dates in Excel.
That would depend on the formatting applied to that cell.
It will if you are asking about conditional formatting.
When you use the fill handle it will copy what is in the cell including the formatting.
When a pivot table is active, you can show its toolbar in older version of Excel and in the new versions the Pivot Table tools will be on the ribbon. Standard formatting, such as fonts, can be applied with the normal formatting options available in Excel.
Merge brings one to several individual cells from Excel into Word. The formatting in the merged Word document depends on Word, not Excel. If you would like to retain the same formatting as you had in Excel, then format the target location in Word to match the cell from Excel.
It is used to copy the formula down or across.
It is called formatting. A wide range of formatting options are available within Excel 2010.
Conditional formatting can be used in Excel to implement certain rules or formulas. These can be done by using the Highlight Cells Rule whereby only the highlighted cells will receive the formatting.
You do Conditional Formatting based on a cell value or based on a formula.
Conditional Formatting.