so is recognised as a date and can be formatted into any format
i suspect this is the issue
When I type 27/07/2022 04:51 into a cell, I only get that text,
you are entering a date format
27/07/2022 - but your excel system is expecting YYYY-MM-DD
and so it assumes its TEXT and NOT a number
like my system does when trying to enter MM/DD/YY
if i enter
10/19/22 - it right justifies and nolonger a real date BUT text - because excel is expecting a MONTH and 19 is NOT a month and so it must be a date
like if i wanted to enter 1st June 22
01/07/22
but if i entered it in that format assuming it should show 7th Jan - as a US date MM/DD
it will be seen as a date - BUT the wrong date
see this a lot with US systems outputing into excel - well a lot of dates are real - BUT wrong and others are TEXT
a couple of questions even yesterday on the forum because of that issue
so if its seen as text , as i showed
TEXTSPLIT works
BUT not when its entered and recognised as a date
I dont feel i have explained that well