How to check a value is not treated as text by Excel

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I have punched a date time value in cell C1. How to check that Excel should not be treating it as a text. It should treat it as a value only.
 

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Maybe a quick check is to look at the alignment in the cell. If it is aligned left, its treated as text, if right, treated as number
 
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No. That didn't work for checking. I made the cell aligned right. Even then Excel is treating it as a text.
 
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You could use the ISNUMBER function maybe, =ISNUMBER(A1) and see if it returns TRUE or FALSE
 
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