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.

Importing dates is a better option but, sometimes, even imported dates come in as text. When this happens, use the DATEVALUE function to convert the text dates to Excel serial numbers.

Excel may return a serial number instead of a date; because it is stored thus in the backend. Learn how to convert Serial Number to Date.

To ignore all numbers stored as text, you need to open the Data tab and select the Text to Columns option. Then, select the Delimited option from the Convert Text to Columns wizard.

Microsoft Excel depends on data that’s stored correctly. If you receive text values that should be real numbers, use one of these methods to get you back to the real work.

How to Separate Text From Numbers in Excel. When you open a raw data file in Excel, the program doesn't always recognize the way in which the data is formatted, such as comma-delimited, tab ...

To stop this automatic simplification, you need to tell Excel what denominator to use. In other words, to keep "4/6" as is, ...

Excel spreadsheets can contain anything from plain text and numbers to dates and percentages. Excel also enables you to enter a date in a cell without actually setting the cell's type to "Date." ...

A surprisingly high number of scientific papers in the field of genetics contain errors introduced by Microsoft Excel, according to an analysis recently published in the journal Genome Biology.

Mary Ann Richardson explains that when concatenating date and text cell data in an Excel formula, you need to convert date cells to text to avoid unexpected results.