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If your text string isn’t in a format recognised by Excel it will return the #VALUE! error.

Tip: What’s also useful about the VALUE function is it will convert a cell containing date and time that is formatted as text, as you can see in row 7 above where 8:00 became 41640.3333, which is the Excel serial number for the date and time: 8:00 AM, whereas the DATEVALUE function, which we’ll look at next, ignores the time portion of the text string. It can convert any text string that looks like a number into a number, so it’s useful for fixing any number, not just dates. The VALUE function was included in Excel for compatibility with other spreadsheet programs, and I'm glad it was cause it's handy. Where the ‘text’ is the reference to the cell containing your date text string. Note: since I’m in Australia our dates are formatted dd/mm/yyyy so I’ll be using this format in the following examples.

The default alignment for text is left and numbers and dates are aligned right. Tip: You can often tell that a number or date is incorrectly formatted as text because it is aligned to the left. There are many ways to fix dates formatted as text in Excel and the method you choose will depend partly on the format they’re in and partly based on your preference for a formula or non-formula solution. If you import data to Excel from another program chances are the dates will come in formatted as text, which means they’re not much use to you in formulas or PivotTables. Excel for Decision Making Under Uncertainty Course.

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