6 Tricks to Make Dates Work in Excel

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Watch this tutorial if you work with dates!

Quick and easy ways to reliably convert dates from plain text or numbers or simply the wrong format into working dates in Excel.

6 ways to make almost any date in Excel work like a regular date, where you can run formulas and functions against it and perform calculations on it.

This includes 5 helpful methods to transform most dates and 1 trick to make almost any kind of date that a user can enter into Excel into a properly formatted date.


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