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Excel keeps converting all cells to “Date” (or Time)

Posted on February 14, 2020 By ANmar

Issue found several times in xls or xlsx, to get it fix

https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/excel-questions/637277-excel-converting-numbers-dates.html

Excel User tips, Format Cells, Non-functions, Worksheet Tags:DATE, dormat, time

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