Episode # 480 - Text Dates

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Thursday, April 05, 2007

After importing data, your numbers and dates might be stored as text. While newer versions of Excel allow you to solve the numbers stored as text easily, the exclamation point dropdown never appears for the dates stored as text. Episode 480 takes a look at several methods for solving the problem.

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