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How Do You Add A Calendar Date Picker To An Excel Spreadsheet?

April 26, 2017calendar Computer Computers Excel picker Software spreadsheet Spreadsheets

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How Do You Add A Calendar Date Picker To An Excel Spreadsheet?

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Date pickers are a common feature on travel-related websites; they allow users to quickly point to days on a pop-up calendar when requesting air, car or hotel reservations. However, Microsoft Excel–a program which frequently requires users to enter dates as well–does not offer any native support of interactive date picker tools. Fortunately, the popularity of this calendar interface has prompted many computer developers to create Excel date pickers. These programs can be integrated into existing Excel installations and many work with all the major versions of Excel since 2000. All that is required in most cases is the downloading and installation of the Excel applet, which enables the calendar picker. Download the free “Calendar” tool available at isamrad.com/ExcelCal/default.htm. This plugin is a standard Excel add-in program. It is offered as a compressed ZIP file which must be unzipped after download. Once the XLA file is placed into the Excel “XLSTART” directory in the “Program F