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Excel Challenge 25: Convert Dates Stored as Text

Claudia Buckley

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Excel dates can be tricky to work with, and we're taking on that challenge this month.

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The challenge ๐Ÿง 

 

The task ๐Ÿ‹๏ธ

We'll need you to use your knowledge of Excel dates to extract the tasks that started in the year 2022. But look out! All is not as it seems!

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At a glance, this may appear to be quite simple, but taking on this challenge may involve several steps since some of these dates are not correctly formatted in Excel.

The clues ๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ

We have some resources on some of our favorite date functions in Excel, and another on how to filter values that satisfy certain criteria.

 

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Read - Working With Dates in Excel  

Read - How to Filter in Excel

 

 

 

 


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The solution ๐Ÿ’ก

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Claudia Buckley

Claudia Buckley

Claudia is a certified Microsoft Office Expert (Excel Specialist), project manager, and business skills instructor at GoSkills who has spent over 20 years in employee professional development. Claudia has a Masters Degree in Business Administration and a Diploma in Educational Psychology. In her spare time, she listens to audiobooks and is an amateur genealogist. View her profile here.