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Date not sorting correctly....

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    Date not sorting correctly....

    Hi All,

    My head office has recently redeveloped our website and the back end is set up differently. I used to cut and paste a list of events, to create a roster for my staff. Do a little cosmetic eidting and reorganising and then email to the staff.

    With the new back end of our website, when I cut and past the list of events, the date column is recognised by excel as text.

    Monday, 3 September 2012 19:00

    When I try to do a 'sort' it on a list of 80 events, it puts all of the Fridays first and Wednesdays last. I have selected the column and changed it to date format, but this doesn't help. I have also tried using the 'text to columns' function, but that doesnt seem to work either.

    All I need is the date and time, the day I can delete or add later (prefer to keep it in a different cell - but fine with it all being in one cell)

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Cheers

    Dee

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    Re: Date not sorting correctly....

    upload the excel file with some data....
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    Re: Date not sorting correctly....

    Hope fully I have uploaded this correctly.

    This is pasted directly from our website.

    Dee
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    Re: Date not sorting correctly....

    Now u can sorting buy c column..... see the file
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    Re: Date not sorting correctly....

    Looking at it now, did you change something before entering that formula?

    It is kind of working, but the other end is trimed

    Result = Monday, 3 September 2012

    Instead of = 3 September 2012 7:00 PM (Like in your example).

    Confused

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    Re: Date not sorting correctly....

    try it........
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    Re: Date not sorting correctly....

    @ sunil.excel

    Please notice that I have removed whole post quotes from your posts(s). Please read the following forum rule and keep it in mind for your future posts. Thanks.

    Rule 12. Don't quote whole posts -- it's just clutter. If you are responding to a post out of sequence, limit quoted content to a few relevant lines that makes clear to whom and what you are responding.

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    Re: Date not sorting correctly....

    Thanks heaps mate,

    It actually worked the first time. When I tried it on the document I want to use it on, I forgot that I had tried formatting the column into a different date format (unsuccessfully). Now it receognises the cells as a date and I can organises them however I like.

    THANK YOU SO MUCH, (Head Ache is now gone...lol)

    Dee

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    Re: Date not sorting correctly....

    @ DeeLaa77

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