When you use Microsoft Excel to store and analyze business data, your workbooks and worksheets often contain date information. Although your original data may need to display full month, day and year ...

Q. When I paste a large amount of data into Excel containing dates as far back as the 1800s, the recent dates display correctly as valid dates, but the older dates automatically convert to text. I ...

Now, Microsoft finally has a fix. In an announcement last week, the Microsoft 365 team released a setting that enables Excels users to change the overly helpful default behavior. To turn off this ...

Excel won't automatically convert alphanumeric symbols into dates. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft is shipping a new ...