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Trouble converting text (that looks like date) to real date format
HI all, I'm having an issue converting an existing date (from a downloaded report) from what appears to be a text format to a real date format. I've used the tips https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...
It looks like its a regional settings issue, your dates are coming through in dd / mm / yy format and then excel is incorrectly converting the ones it can
e.g. 11th Jan 2017 = 11/01/2017 which is then incorrectly converted into 1st November 2017
however 13th Jan 2017 = 13/01/2017 which then shows as text because there is no 13th month
Do you normally work with dates in a mm/dd/yy format?