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Old 02-11-2022, 11:38 AM
sam123456 sam123456 is offline Excel reading date incorrectly Windows 10 Excel reading date incorrectly Office 2016
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Default Excel reading date incorrectly

Hi,
I have a csv file with ~500,000 rows. I am facing an issue with Excel interpreting dates incorrectly.

I download this data from an online platform, where the date is formatted as DD/MM/YY.

I download data from the platform, then copy and paste to an existing csv file which is then fed to a tableau dashboard.

As soon as I copy and paste data to the csv file, Excel is interpreting and changing the data to YYYY/MM/DD format.

For example:
01/02/19 (1st Feb 2019) is being changed to 2001/02/19



The date column in the csv file is set to Short Date.

I tried converting to text so I could manually change the dates - as soon as I do that the date changes to a number like 39610. I cannot change one row at a time as there are ~500,000 rows.

Is there another fix?

Thanks
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