Add 'date picker' to enable users to select a date from a mini calendar into cells
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Hi all,
We have been working on this, and wanted to get your feedback on how you see this feature fitting into your workflow. We have a quick one question survey for you to give us your thoughts on the look and keyboard shortcuts we have at this time. Please see here for more: aka.ms/datePickerSurvey
Thanks!
Blake, Excel Product Team
1174 comments
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Rosa Macias
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We need this, it's very important.
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Anonymous
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Very important
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Lisa A S
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Absolutely necessary.
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Anonymous
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desperately needed for accurate data entry - please add asap - thanks
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Jahanvi
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Very essential Functionality required in a regular use. please add it!
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Anonymous
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Very surprised that this calendar widget isn't available in 64-bit. Surely must be Priority 1 to provide this for all 64-bit versions of Excel
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Anonymous
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If not done on 64 bits, please please please do so.
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Smitty
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The fact this doesn't exist in Excel 365 64-bit (unsure about 32-bit) is ridiculous. There is simply no excuse. The more I do dev. work using Microsoft products (Excel, Outlook, Word, Access, SharePoint, old InfoPath 2013, SQL Server, Visio), the more I simply start to hate them as a company. Inconsistency is rampant, ridiculous work-arounds commonly needed because apparently nobody at Microsoft actually develops with their own products...it never ends.
Their decisions to deprecate random features seems to be based solely on the whims of their stupid analytics, without any thought as to how useful it is even if it's not THE MOST USED FEATURE EVER. Either that, or Intern of the Quarter gets to spin the Wheel of Deprecation for a prize. I realize features require upkeep and maintenance, but seriously, not having a date picking tool in a FREAKING SPREADSHEET application is pure 100% ********, especially since Google Sheets (you know, that free program) lets you do it easily with Data validation.
I'm late to the programming game but I'm a fast learner, so I'm already making the move to get out of the Microsoft ecosystem because it's getting worse and worse.
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Anonymous
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This is a fundamental requirement for date selection in excel. It prevents data input errors especially when dates where the day can be confused with the month. Come on Microsoft listen to the VOC on this issue and just make it available on all versions of Excel whether it's 32 or 64 bit.
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Dave
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Production report scaling in Excel would be greatly augmented by this.
We use Power BI for all our regular structured reporting needs, however some more focused analytic reports which are used for a short term in conjunction with existing scripted Excel documents, enabling this function would be well appreciated.
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Brian Cohen
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I can not imagine a reason to remove this tool
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Anonymous
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For me i am helping Probation Officers use this to assign terms and conditions, and they want to put the start date and then the due date and this is difficult to remember the format and figure out which date when they can't see in the calendar view. And, they often are on macs or even ipads.
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Anonymous
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Put it in Excel!
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Anonymous
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For me a simple date picker is needed because i'm using excel to create weekly and daily teaching plan. By having the date picker function i can create an easier to fill up form for my fellow teachers
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ro
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It is unbelievable that this is not an option from Microsoft.
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Bob
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I really miss the feature to have a date-time picker in excel
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Anonymous
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Hey Tracey here..! It would be great if we have excel "Date Pickers" drop down menu in "Additional Controls" tab for 64 BIT excel
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freddy brito
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ES ÚTIL CONTAR CON ESTA HERRAMIENTA
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Anonymous
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Hey Sriviraj here..! It would be great if we have excel "Date Pickers" drop down menu in "Additional Controls" tab for 64 BIT excel users too in VBA USER FORMS. Microsoft team has to provide as inbuilt option for the users. so that we will not be depend on 3rd party add ins.
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Duane Davis
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I was expecting something similar to the date pickers in Access and SharePoint forms. I am not expecting a keyboard shortcut. The purpose it to simplify the collection of end user data where a date is involved.