My other question, out of interest, is that I assume hundreds of brilliant engineers design Excel. it seems really mindboggling to me how/why/if an software engineer? would change date formats in mid month or whatever, and also why the date won't change properly even with complete deletion and manual input. Also a layman's terms to explain why this is happening would be great. Also in April.Īm not a techie, so would a appreciate simple step by step instructions on how to fix if you can help. Note that in August, only one date reformatted properly. I can try to post the sample excel here or a screen shot if possible. I've researched this with no luck on the web, even looking at some answers in this forum. I've tried everything, including manually deleting the entire contents of the cell, and replacing it with, then it converts to July 7, 2015. It seems strange if an engineer would program their dates to different formats. Syntax DATEVALUE (datetext) The DATEVALUE function syntax has the following arguments: Datetext Required. Find links to more information about displaying numbers as dates in the See Also section. The strange thing is there is no real consistency, some entries convert, some don't. To view a date serial number as a date, you must apply a date format to the cell. However, when I convert the data in the cell to YYYY-MM-DD using format, half the dates never convert. I usually convert the dates to YYYY-MM-DD (System International Standard) so there is absolutely no confusion ever (as what 11-02-04 would mean), as with other formats, at any time in the future. 4 Don’t Enclose Numbers in Double Quotes. 3 Values are Different & Result is Different. Using MS Excel 2008 V 12.2 on a Imac 2015 6 Main Reasons for Excel Formula Not Working (with Solution) 1 Cells Formatted as Text. I downloaded some data from my bank for some transactions.
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