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If numbers keep changing to dates automatically in Excel or if Excel changes dates to random numbers then this post will help you fix the issue. As reported by some users, whenever they enter a number ...

The automatic conversion function of Excel, Microsoft's spreadsheet software, automatically converts some inputs, such as numbers and dates, into specific types of data. Although this feature is ...

Q. When I paste a large amount of data into Excel containing dates as far back as the 1800s, the recent dates display correctly as valid dates, but the older dates automatically convert to text. I ...

DATEDIF(), which means Date + Dif, is a compatibility function left over from Lotus 1-2-3 that Microsoft adopted in Excel version 2000, which is the only version that explains how this function works.