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Why my auto-fill is like broken?
It looks like Excel sees the values as text.
Format F1 as mmmm d, yyyy
Enter 1-May-22 in F1
Then fill down
The number changes correctly, but I am still not able to use the format cell to format. After I click OK, nothing happened.
In addition, you may enter the dates in ISO format like 2023-05-01, it shall be recognizable independently of regional settings.
One more, if you see your "dates" are left aligned that means you have texts which looks like dates. Dates actually are numbers and by default shall be right aligned.
Finally. applying another format to the cell you do not convert text to date/number, you shall to re-enter the value in proper format.
You entered 1 May 22, but your system date format is in Chinese as far as I can tell, so you should enter the date in a Chinese format.
