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Excel formatting
I have collated a data spreadsheet showing activity records by date. The source material was originally in a CSV format which I converted to excel.
I am trying to sort the data by date order but it won't let me. I have formatted the date column to "date" rather than general, but even with this, when I try to filter the data it only gives me the option to filter "A to Z" or "Z to A", not in date order.
How do I resolve this?
Thanks,
Uday
RE: excel formatting
Hi Uday,
Thank you for the forum question.
Even that you format a column to date formatting, Excel will not treat the content as dates. Only if the dates in the column are the correct structure.
If the dates have the correct structure, you can select the dates and change the formatting to general. Then the dates should turn into a numbers. If you type the date 01/01/1900 in a cell and change the formatting to general formatting the cell will change and display 1.
If it looks like dates when the cells are general formatted, then the dates are structured wrong and Excel sees the dates as text strings.
The Power Query tool in Excel can probably solve the issue.
Kind regards
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