Working with large Excel files is sometimes a daily task when you run a small business. Excel spreadsheets can contain anything from plain text and numbers to dates and percentages. Excel also enables ...

When you enter a date that's formatted with slashes, Excel will recognize it as a date. For example, Excel will automatically choose the date format for a cell that contains 11/11/19. You can set ...

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 ...