Excel Won't Sort Dates Correctly - The Solution!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2016
- This video is in response to a request from Imran who explained that although he had followed the advice in one of my earlier videos about how to sort dates in Excel, his spreadsheet wasn't working, and that however much he tried, Excel just wouldn't sort his dates by year correctly. In this video I'm using Imran's own spreadsheet to demonstrate what the problem is, and explain clearly step by step how to solve it!
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Sir, You will be remembered till my death. It took 7 minutes to understand this. Thank you so much.
Ha ha! Thank you so much, I'm very glad to have helped.
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What if I'm trying to do a multiline sort? it doesn't seem to work. My date is a date per the true-false test, and I can sort the date column correctly with the a-z button. However, when using a multiline sort it does not work... Any ideas?
@@TheTechTrain I'm also having the multi-line sort problem :( This solution had me excited until I tried it with an advanced sort
I don't think he will ever fathom the number of hours of work he saved us. Indeed, knowledge is power.
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Completely useful and what enormous frustration you cured with very straightforward and easy to follow steps with no added filler. Thanks!
Wow, it's rare to find a video that actually fixes stuff on Excel, and yours did. Thanks man!
This is the first of like 15 different sites and videos that did this properly. Everyone else took the easy way out by only having one year. Thank you for explaining this properly!
I'm so glad you found it useful.
Thanks for this fix. I refer to it every year when preparing my books to take to my accountant. I have usually forgotten the correction method by then. Your explanations are lucid and your voice timbre easy on the ear. Thank you. We tech-blockheads need people like you!
More than 3 years later and this video is still relevant. Thank you so much for this! I've been racking my brains out for a solution! This solved my problem!
I'm so glad you found it helpful Angel Arce
Saved me about four days' work on my master's thesis. Thank you!
Thank you! This video sorted my issue! The big secret was just to make sure none of the delimiters were selected in the Text To Column dialog box and that when you select the date there you select WHAT IT CURRENTLY IS, rather than WHAT YOU WANT IT TO BE, as I had been doing, as you change it to what you want it to be after it's properly formatted as date. Thank you again!!
After trying to figure this out for 3 hours I am so happy that I found your video! Thanks mate!
You're very welcome!
😂😂😂😂 literary my predicament
You are a genius my friend...thank you SO MUCH for giving clear instructions on how to solve this very annoying issue
Brilliant man! Even 2 years later you're still saving the world! Thanks very much for this!
This is the first video that actually helped me and I’m in the US! It was the text to columns that I needed to fix. Thank you!!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
I'm so glad it worked for you! Hello to the US! 👋
YOU'RE OUT HERE SAVING LIVES!!!!!!!!!!
I love you. I saw someone type out these instructions and when I followed them they didn't work. That person never specified to deselect things in the delimiter column. Anyway, when my dates moved to the right I gasped so loud that I scared my cat.
It has been DAYS since I started working on this spreadsheet and I was about to give up and just deal with them unsorted
Excellent, I have been struggling for solution with this problem . Consulted with my colleagues but in vain, Problem solved with your suggestion . So great of you. Thank You
You're the Best! Like many others, I've spent at least an hour trying to find out how to fix the problem. Project for work is now complete thanks to you.
Thank you Joanna Foley, I'm so glad you liked it.
Such a simple ,clear and understandable video. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have been battling with sorting my accounts. Now I finally can complete them
I'm so glad you found it useful Fatmah! Glad to have helped with your accounts.
You are a star, I was beginning to think I'd have to sort thousands of lines of data out manually. Thank you sooo much.
God bless you! I have a report due tomorrow first thing in the morning and I was able to sort the dates on my pivot table thanks to your tips. Truly!
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much.
Yah exactly ,I use this idea on today my self also
Yeah i am also looking for
Thank you! Exactly what I wanted is sorted out 👌🏽
Me too
Legend been trying to sort this for so long!
Have spent ages trying to find out why this wasn't working - thank you SO much for this video! 🙂
This has been driving me insane, forever. Thank you, not only for the solution, but the tempo and explanation was great.😊👏
My god, I hate Excel SO MUCH. Why does this error even exist? I set my column do Date format before I entered any data and STILL I had this problem. It makes no sense!
That aside - thank you! Life saver.
Thanks, I'm glad it was useful
its not excels problem. its most likely the file that you get from the erp that mutates the dates
OMG, I've waisted more than an hour trying to figure this thing out.
Thanks a lot man.
I spend a day tackle this problem. This video helps to solve my problem quickly. Thanks for uploading awesome solution.
It worked for me, thanks to your easy steps I’ve managed to avoid big chaos in a report. This saved my day.
I did have an irritating problem sorting the dates, your video has managed to fix that for me. Amazing work, loads of love
Oh my goodness, this was exactly what I've been trying to do and it's been so frustrating trying to get this to work. Thank you so much for sharing this!!!
I usually just get the info I need and move on but wanted to take the time to say thanks for providing value to your subscribers & those of us who found you in desperation!!
Much appreciated! I'm very glad you found it useful.
Thank you!!! This is just what I needed to solve this issue. I had been trying to use text to columns and then a concat formula but nothing was working. You have made my life a lot easier and saved a bunch of time :) Thanks!
Glad it helped!
This is the best video in the history of video's. Thank you very much for making my day 1000x easier
Thank you very much! I have been trying to format some date in my file for days which has left me frustrated until I came across this video. Very straightforward.
You are the best thing that happened to me this day! I have been trying to figure out this for ages!!!! Was about to go crazy! Thank you from Argentina!!! God bless you!!!
Thank you, I was going crazy trying to figure out why my dates were sorting by months and years! And now I have the new tool of knowing when to check if the field is True or False for text!
I have struggled with this for three days - I got the solution from you in a couple of minutes but watched the whole thing anyway! I was using the text to coloums but not removing all the qualifiers! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bless you! I have been tearing my hair out over this for an hour. The Microsoft Tech Help had NO idea how to sort it. I had my suspicions that it was some kind of bug. I could not believe that Excel designers had just decided to do away with such a useful function. The alignment (left instead of right) of the dates is the giveaway. Although, how I shall remember how to solve it next time I need to do it ... You explain it clearly, but an ordinary user would never think of such a thing.
I'm so glad you found it helpful AJ Moore
This issue was so frustrating, thank you! Your solution worked like a charm! GOD BLESS YOU!
Awesome, googling for half an hour didn't give me a solution, this video hit the spot!
Glad it helped!
These are 8 minutes very well spended, thank you very much man :) I wanted to ask in merit of the sorting, does the other data connected to the dates get sorted as well?
A good informative video presented in a very listenable manner. As you invite problems perhaps I can assist. When sorting dates prior to 1900 one solutions seems to be to use separate columns for day-month-year. A sort on the 'year' column will expand and retain the relationship with month and day and everything else. However, when you have multiple entries for a year they remain in a random order. At least they do when I try it. Is there a work-around to get the entries within the year to sort into order for day and month?
Exactly what I needed. Saved me a ton of frustration and time. Thank you!
O MY GOD.... This was so incredibly well explained and so helpful... i am almost in tears. God bless you so much sir and thank you greatly
Really helpful and fixed my issue which I spent hours looking through youtube without luck. Thanks a lot.
What an incredibly useful video. Man, I searched forever for thaat answer. Great work.
Followed it exactly, worked out perfect! Thanks for putting this up.
You're welcome! Glad it helped.
Excellent! Never would have gotten this without this video. Mine is properly ordered by date now.
I'm so glad it helped fox your problem.
Thank you so much, I used to overlook this issue but now I really needed those days sorted, you saved my report!
So clearly explained. Thanks so much - solved my problem perfectly!
Dear Tech Train, You absolutely made my day. Thank you so much for this video!
I know this is seven years young, but THANK YOU! It's still relevant and very much helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
This is exactly what I needed yesterday, it saves me! You are awesome!
Oh my goodness!!! You are simply HEAVEN SENT!!!! This fixed up an error in my database in seconds. Thou art AWESOME!!!!
Thank you so much! I'm really glad I was able to help fix the problem.
I saw 5 years ago and didn’t trust this video at all… This video has stood the test of time… I just impressed my boss…. thank you 🙏🏽
Just what I needed. Finally got a way to solve my date problem.
Thank you very much
Thank you SO much for this solution. Your tutorials are excellent. I know where to come in future!
Thank you Karen, I'm really glad you think so!
Excellent!!! Was looking all over the place for a solution to the issue after downloading a CSV file. You nailed it. Thank You!!
I'm so glad it worked for you!
Thank you for sharing. It was driving me crazy trying to figure it out.
Thanks you for your guidance This helped me sorting my dates as the column filter did not work as there was no grouping on Year, Month, Day. After the conversion the filter grouping worked great. Super helpful!
I'm so glad it was able to help you Edwin!
Excellent tutorial. This is a lifesaver. Thank you mate.
Many articles tell you to change the cell format, but the issue isn't resolved after doing so. Thank you for sharing with us the true fix for the problem!
I'm so glad this was able to help!
A very very clear explanation. Thank you so much. Learning thru your videos here in the Philippines. Thank you so much🤩🤩🤩
Thank you so much. I just happened to stumble upon this video and channel. I was trying to find a solution for this for past few months and finally given and used power query to solve , which I always felt an overkill for simple issue.
Glad it helped!
Thank you I spent hours trying to find out what was wrong and the true/false check and
your solution worked. XL said dates but they were not recognised. I had 400 dates from a company accounts program that I wanted in XL. All now sorted!
Thank you, Thank you Thank you! I have struggled with this for years. This was clear and concise!
Glad it helped!
AWESOME!!! FINALLY, an easy solution to a problem I get every time a client sends me their Excel file.
Glad it helped!
You are my hero. Thank you. I have been mishandling massive Excel spreadsheets at my work now for months because of this issue. THANK YOU!!!!
You're very welcome VakarianGirl, I'm so glad you liked it.
I have been stressing whole day !! This video saved my life !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Thank you! For some reason this video is still relevant six years after release. MS should fix this!
Beautiful, thanks for the clear illustration. Helped me a great deal.
Very impressed! It was exactly what you described. It was recognise as text. Changed via 'text to column' and it worked. thank you
I'm so glad it helped!
Man! I was going crazy until I watched this video! Thank you for solving my problem!
Thank you so much it was very helpful. I had the same problem I tried video's in you tube to come up with the solution, I also asked a couple of people didn't work. At last problem solved thanks to your video!
You're very welcome!
This was very helpful, and solved a problem that was costing me a lot of time!
I'm so glad it helped you!
This is exactly what I was looking for.
Thank you brother.
Many thanks for explaining that so well......you are a star!
YOU'RE A LEGEND! BACK FROM THE FUTURE
Thank you Daniel!
Thank you so much for a very clear and concise explanation.
Clear, concise and a great help. Thank you
Love this video. It fixed all my issues with dates! Thank you!
so helpful! this issue has been a real problem for me, for a long long time. Thank you!
I'm so glad this video was able to help you!
I actually love you! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just spent 5 hours wrestling with excel until you came along, you brilliant man!!
Ha ha! You're very welcome, I'm so glad I was able to be of some help in recovering your sanity.
All glories to the master!!!! It took me 1hr to figure out. After watching this video, i am extremely happy!!! Thank uuuuuuuu sooooo much
You saved me hours of manual work, endless thank you!!
Thankyou so very much, you fixed my problem! I've been trying to fix it for weeks and other videos haven't helped.
I'm so glad you found it helpful MARGARET PACITTI
Thank you. The explanation was what I needed after several searches
Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for this video, had been searching a lot but finally got something which actually helped me. Thank you once again.
You're very welcome. I'm glad it worked for you.
thank you so frustrating not to be able to do, clear and concise instruction really useful
Wow! A video that actually solved my problem, easily and quickly. Thank you!!
You're welcome!
I watch multiple videos before coming here all in vain.. thanks for the superquick solution. Appreciated!!
I watched a previous video by someone else but it did not solve my problem. After watching your video my problem with the date sort was solved. Thank you!
Thank you, you've really helped me sort a problem.
I've seen this problem with client's files that were created by exporting from a data base. The other way to create this problem is when you enter your dates not like they've been set up in your computer's preferences. Either way, it's probably not Excel's fault. The fact that the cells were aligned to the left and that sorting suggested A to Z were immediate giveaways. I would've used flash fill to solve the problem which is a bit easier but you need Excel 2013 or newer.
Wow - that worked perfectly, and well described! Nice job, thanks for the video!
Thank you so much, I'm glad you liked it.
Worked perfectly. Thanks! Tried this in October 2020 on a Mac.
I had over 700 transactions in one of my spreadsheets and guess what your brilliant......I was able to sort the info using your instructions. They were clear to understand and easy to do...Thank you for Sharing this info...Regards, Sue from Brisbane Australia.
I'm so glad it was able to help you!
This video save my life!!!!!!!!!! EXTREMELY HELPFUL!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!
You're very welcome! I'm glad it worked for you.
Thank you so much for your detailed explanation. Your video help me lot !!
That worked perfectly for me! Thank you so much for this video!!
I'm so glad you found it helpful Talmiior