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ameyad09
Feb 27, 2024Copper Contributor
Does Excel consider date column as text if the number of blank values are more than the date values?
I have a file which has 2 date columns first column has more blank values than date values due to which the entire column is shown as text when I filter on it.I tried using Format cells ,Datevalue,t...
ameyad09
Feb 27, 2024Copper Contributor
Hi,Thank you for checking.However if I delete those values the column B & C data is gone as well which is required.
Is there any way to show the column A as Date without having to delete or Find and replace those hyphen values?
Is there any way to show the column A as Date without having to delete or Find and replace those hyphen values?
rprsridhar
Feb 27, 2024Brass Contributor
Make sure you are highlighting column A only while deleting.
So that data from column B and C does not get deleted.
It looks like you have imported data from some other source / file.
Some thing has gone wrong there while importing.
I tried what you are asking for but could not succeed.