Excel may return a serial number instead of a date; because it is stored thus in the backend. Learn how to convert Serial Number to Date.

How to Convert Dates Stored as Text Into Dates. Working with large Excel files is sometimes a daily task when you run a small business.

Mary Ann Richardson explains that when concatenating date and text cell data in an Excel formula, you need to convert date cells to text to avoid unexpected results.

Luckily, Excel offers handy formulas that allow you to convert text into upper case, lower case, title case, and even sentence case with minimal effort.

Microsoft Excel depends on data that’s stored correctly. If you receive text values that should be real numbers, use one of these methods to get you back to the real work.

Using the Excel Text to Column feature, you can choose how to split the column up, fix the width, or split at each comma, period, or other characters.