Argument. Description. start_date . Required. A date that represents the first, or starting date of a given period. Dates may be entered as text strings within quotation marks (for example, "2001/1/30"), as serial numbers (for example, 36921, which represents January 30, 2001, if you're using the 1900 date system), or as the results of other formulas or functions (for example, DATEVALUE("2001 ...

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In Settings, select Update & Security , then Windows Update , and then select the Check for updates button. Install any available updates and restart your PC if required.

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These are the buttons and bars that sit right next to your Start button and cannot be moved.. Search on the taskbar can be set in four ways: either to Search box, which includes a full text box to enter your search (or your Bing Chat prompt; see Using the new Bing on the Windows taskbar for more) into plus additional search highlights, Search icon and label (displaying as a search icon and ...

When you open a port in Windows Defender Firewall you allow traffic into or out of your device, as though you drilled a hole in the firewall. This makes your device less secure and might create opportunities for hackers or malware to use one of those openings to get to your files or use your device to spread malware to other devices.

On the Security tab, select Custom level, and then under ActiveX controls and plug-ins, do one the following: Allow Automatic prompting for ActiveX controls by selecting Enable. Allow Internet Explorer to Display video and animation on a webpage that doesn't use external media player by selecting Enable. Allow Internet Explorer to Download signed ActiveX controls by selecting Enable, or Prompt ...

Using Microsoft Query, you can connect to external data sources, select data from those external sources, import that data into your worksheet, and refresh the data as needed to keep your worksheet data synchronized with the data in the external sources.