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To: Pontiac

And the cell is formatted as DATE and not Text?


35 posted on 09/18/2017 5:38:08 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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To: Dalberg-Acton
I created a new spreadsheet.

It contains the following in a single column. I selected the column and set the formatting for the column to be date with "03/14/12".

date
1/20/1882
2/15/2015
1/21/1792

Then I did a sort. Here's what it displayed.

date
02/15/15
1/20/1882
1/21/1792

You'll notice it only zero-padded 1 entry. It also completely failed to sort. Astounding that Excel still can't handle this elementary operation. Looks like the version is Office 2013.

42 posted on 09/18/2017 8:05:53 AM PDT by zeugma (I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum. —Hank Green)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

Yes


44 posted on 09/18/2017 1:54:27 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.L)
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