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    Re: Excel sees non-identical values as identical

    The highlight duplicates functionality seems to work similarly to functions like COUNTIF in that it will treat anything that could be considered a number (including dates) as a number. In this case I assume it is coercing 5-9 to a date (either 5th Sept or 9th May depending on your region). That's why it doesn't happen with 15-19.
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    Re: Excel sees non-identical values as identical

    How can I fix this? I already put a ' in front of the values so that Excel wouldn't change them to a date. Is there another way to make sure these values are not seen as dates?

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