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Kudaj
Aug 18, 2022Copper Contributor
Formatting time to 24hour in excel
Hello, I have a document with about 700 columns. The first column has time and date in 12hour format, when I try to format to 24hour to eliminate the AM/Pm it’s only converting to half the file and I...
JKPieterse
Aug 19, 2022Silver Contributor
Your data has confused Excel into thinking that part of the values isn't a valid date&time format. Those cells are left as text and hence do not change in format if you change the number format.
Be careful, if this is an issue with the order of your dates (days first or months first) it may be that all cells Excel did convert to real dates are wrong (it then switched the days for months and vice versa)!
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Be careful, if this is an issue with the order of your dates (days first or months first) it may be that all cells Excel did convert to real dates are wrong (it then switched the days for months and vice versa)!
Read this about importing data into Excel: https://jkp-ads.com/articles/importtext.asp