excel date formatting not working

Question

I have an excel sheet created by a 3rd party program.

One of the columns has dates in this format: \"Jan 19, 2015 03:00:00 PM\"

I would like these dates to appea

Answer 1

My solution to a similar problem with Date formatting was solved by:

1. Copying the problem sheet then pasting it into Sheet
   n.
2. Deleting the problem sheet.
3. Renaming Sheet n to the name of the problem sheet.

QED.

The problem sheet contained Date data that I wanted to read as 07/21/2017 that would not display anything other than 42937. The first thing I did was to close Excel and re-launch it. More tries followed. I gave up on my own solutions. I tried a few online suggestions. I then made one more attempt and - Walla - the above three steps fixed the problem. As to why the problem existed? It obviously had something to do with "the" sheet. Go figure!

For me to believe is insufficient for you to know - rodalsa.