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Converting dates

I have a range of dates that I have exported into Excel from another system. I need to compare these dates with another to get a period of time.

However, Excel is reading the exported dates as text, not as dates. I have tried doing Format - Cells etc. which has no effect. Can anyone think of a way to convert these to dates or even just to numbers?

Thanks

Tristan

RE: Converting dates

Never mind! Figured it out - DATEVALUE

 

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