Excel also enables you to enter a date in a cell without actually setting the cell's type to "Date." Dates stored in text cells can cause all sorts of problems, especially if you want to filter or ...

Syntax: =PROPER(text) Just like its case-changing cousins, PROPER needs only the text to convert. It’s especially useful when ...

Q. I read your August 2022 JofA article about changing the case of text in Excel to upper, lower, and proper, but some of my data comes in sentence form. Is there any way to convert those text strings ...

In the November 2004 Tech Q&A column (page 85) I wrote with absolute confidence that there is no easy way to change the case of text in Excel. Within three weeks of the publication date, 435 ...

To change the date format in Excel 365, select the cell in your spreadsheet and go to Format > Format Cells. You can find this option in the Home tab. Then, switch to the Date tab and select a ...

Microsoft Excel has a feature to change a number into a date, and it is quite simple to do. This tutorial will explain the steps to change a number into a date format in Excel.

Pro tip: Never change the format of a cell with a date to General or Text. Excel will turn your date into an unrelated number. For example, 3/3/2017 becomes 42797 when it's not formatted as a date.

Excel filters help you find exactly what you want, no matter how big your spreadsheet database is. Here's how to set number, text and data filters.

As well as allowing you to change a cell's number format to Date, Fraction, or Text, Excel lets you choose from nine other ...

text from one or more cells into one cell—date cells with text cells in an Excel formula, you must first convert the referenced date cells to text; otherwise, you end up with an unexpected result.