Excel stopped formatting

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My Excel just stopped formatting cells. Even if I select the column and use the format cells command again it does not work. I tried to select one cell and when I chose "format cells" came a dialog box where I could format the font. I am an university professor and use this command a lot to change dates into numbers to grade students by their task delivery date. Can someone help?

 

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Issue resolved: Due to change of language in Windows, dates changed from dd/mm/yy yo mm/dd/yy, and 28-5 was not understood as a date, Ithen tried 5-28, and succeeded.

 

[jasonb75]

I did point that out as a likely cause in post 15!