How to Stop Excel from Changing Numbers to Dates Automatically

Number Changes to date when entered in Excel

Excel has some really smart features that can be really useful in many cases (and sometimes it could be frustrating). One such area is when you enter numbers in Excel. Sometimes, Excel automatically changes these numbers to dates. For example, if you enter 1/2 in Excel, Excel will automatically change this to 01-02-2020 (or 02-01-2020 …

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Change Negative Number to Positive in Excel [Remove Negative Sign]

Formula to convert negative numbers to positive numbers

Most of the people who work with Excel spreadsheets deal with numbers in large/small datasets. And when you work with numbers, you will have all types of it (positive, negative, decimals, date/time). One of the common tasks a lot of us need to do often is to convert these numbers from one format to another. …

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How to Calculate Square Root in Excel (Using Easy Formulas)

Append square root symbol to a value using ampersand

It’s amazing how you can find multiple ways to do the same thing in Excel. After all, there are so many awesome functionalities and functions. A really simple and often needed task is to calculate the square root in Excel. And as I said, there are multiple ways you can do that in Excel (formulas, …

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Convert Time to Decimal Number in Excel (Hours, Minutes, Seconds)

Convert Time to Decimal using the CONVERT function

By default, date and time are saved as numbers/decimals in Excel. But you often see it in different formats because of the way the cells have been formatted. For example, in the below example, the value in column A and B is the same, but these are displayed differently because of the format. And one …

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How to Remove Time from Date/Timestamp in Excel (4 Easy Ways)

Remove Time by formatting the date

Excel allows you to display data in many different formats. And there are way too many to choose from when it comes to dates and time data in Excel. And since there are so many formats, there are also ways to edit and modify these. One common thing many people need to do often in …

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How to Assign a Macro to a Button in Excel (Easy Guide)

Click on Form Control button icon

While there are many different ways to run a macro in Excel, none of those methods can be as easy and user-friendly as clicking on a button. And for that to work, you need to assign a macro to a button first. In this tutorial, I will show you a couple of ways to insert …

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Remove First Character from String in Excel

Manually Enter the second value in the second adjacent cell

Working with text data would often require slicing and dicing it. And one such common thing people often have to do is to remove the first characters from a string in Excel. Suppose you have a dataset as shown below (in column A) and you want to remove only the first characters from each cell …

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