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PostalCat
Apr 11, 2025Copper Contributor
Spill Formula converting dates to numbers, make it stop
I have two sets of data, one quite large. I need to match data from one sheet to a second sheet and return the matching results into a third sheet. The formula works fine, but it is converting dates ...
Riny_van_Eekelen
Apr 14, 2025Platinum Contributor
Even if 05200: 009.36 my be a date for you, Excel sees it as a text. On the other hand, 6-Apr-24 is recognized as a date and the FILTER function returns the date number. Select the spilled range and set the desired data format. Date numbers will be transformed to dates and text remain texts.