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KIZZA94
Jan 19, 2022Copper Contributor
Excel keeps crashing when trying to convert dates using text to column
I have a large excel file containing over 12,000 rows of data. I cannot filter the data by date because excel doesn't recognise the UK dates as a date format and it cant be changed using the change f...
- Mar 15, 2022
SergeiBaklan Brilliant, that second option worked! Thank you very much.
Riny_van_Eekelen
Platinum Contributor
KIZZA94 Have you considered using Power Query (if you are not on a Mac, that is)? Would also be good to know exactly how the "dates" look like before you try to transform them into the UK format.
Benny_1857
Jan 19, 2022Brass Contributor
It's true, in PQ, you could set up local datetime format.