Chart date labels are 1900

LSmack54

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I am working with a line graph and cannot get the x-axis labels to correctly display the dates in a yyyy format. If I try in a line graph, they simply stay mm/dd/yyyy format, when I tried in a scatter plot, the dates were displayed, but all having the year 1900. It appears that the dates are entered correctly in the source data, I don't know what's happening with the chart labels. Thanks!
 

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Hi LSmack54
Welcome to the board

It seems your dates are not real dates, but text.

Please confirm it.

Ex: if A2 is one of your dates write in an empty cell:

=ISTEXT(A2)

The result should be False.

In case the result is true convert the text to dates, for ex. with Text to Columns.
 
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The result is False, the entries are all dates (when formatted to general, is a julian #). This is the confusing part for me, too.
 
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I'm sorry, I spoke too soon. It seems that there were some entries that are text further down the list. Thank you for your help in solving this problem for me.
 
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