How to fix these dates?

danhendo888

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How best could I go about fixing this column so that it shows dates.
The bottom half is in text format.
Thanks all.
 

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The link suggests they are simply left aligned ?
Is there a leading apostrophe in the Text dates ?
Put this formula in col "B" and copy down....if they are a date it will return true

Code:
=LEFT(CELL("format",A1))="D"
 
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I uploaded the spreadsheet again.

A2:A6 shows dates in MM/DD/YYYY format
A7:A9 is in DD/MM/YYYY format but Excel doesn't recognize them as dates.

When I sort, this is the output.
Looking for a way to convert column A to dates.

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