Hi Product Hunt! 👋 I'm the maker behind Date Picker for Excel. If you work extensively inside spreadsheets, you know the absolute chaos of manual date data entry. One developer inputs DD/MM/YYYY, a teammate in another country enters MM/DD/YYYY, a couple of keystroke typos slip through, and suddenly your downstream pivot tables, lookups, and chronological formulas are completely broken. Worse, traditional solutions are clunky. VBA macro workbooks (.xlsm) constantly trigger strict corporate security blocklists, and generic web add-ins hog half your monitor via heavy side-taskpanes. I built this app to fix that. It's a native, lightweight Windows desktop extension that acts as a natural layer over your grid: ⚡ Contextual Overlay: A beautiful visual calendar wrapper right at your cursor. 🤖 Smart Auto-Display: Scans sheet headers in 50+ languages to trigger automatically on date cells. 🌍 Regional Defier: Lets you set explicit format whitelists/blacklists to force team uniformity regardless of Windows local system settings. 🛠️ Native UI Integration: Seamlessly integrates into your Excel Ribbon and right-click menus. 🔒 Zero VBA: Fully secure, Microsoft Store deployed, and enterprise-ready. We're offering a fully functional 7-day free trial so you can throw your worst, most complex frozen-pane spreadsheets at it and see how it holds up. I'd love to hear your honest feedback, feature requests, or thoughts on what we should add to our roadmap next. I’ll be hanging out in the comments all day! Happy building, James Hoffman

Date Picker for Excel

Smart pop-up calendar overlay for Microsoft Excel

Smart pop-up calendar overlay for Microsoft Excel