Use either keyboard shortcuts or the NOW and TODAY functions to display the current date and time in Excel and Google Sheets spreadsheets together.

If you're using Microsoft Excel, you insert the current date in a spreadsheet with the Ctrl-; keyboard shortcut. Select a cell, press the "Ctrl" key and then enter ";" (semi-colon).

Set Current Date in Excel The easiest way to add the current date in Excel is to simply type the date. For instance, typing "2018-07-31" in a cell is automatically detected as a date.

Microsoft Word has a date field, but it's not easy to use in an expression. If you need to update dates in a document, use Excel to calculate the dates and then run a mail merge.