How to Automatically Insert the Date Onto a Spreadsheet. Microsoft Office Excel offers many tools and processes for automating actions in spreadsheets.

You can alphabetize data in an Excel spreadsheet by row or column using the "Sort" feature, or through the "Data" and "Home" tabs.

If you use Microsoft Excel, you probably know the popular spreadsheet tool automatically numbers each row in a spreadsheet outside the columns of the sheet itself. But often you want to have a ...