in excel how do enter today's date on a laptop

on a laptop that has no seperate numeric keyboard how how do I key control+
to get todays date ?

See if your laptop has a NUM LOCK key.
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"bency" wrote:

> on a laptop that has no seperate numeric keyboard how how do I key control+
> to get todays date ?

The shortcut is not Control and the plus sign
It is control semicolon.

Current date Select a cell and press CTRL+;
Current time Select a cell and press CTRL+SHIFT+;
Current date and time Select a cell and press CTRL+; then SPACE then
CTRL+SHIFT+;

"bency" wrote:

> on a laptop that has no seperate numeric keyboard how how do I key control+
> to get todays date ?