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B. Baumgartner
 
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Default Sorting by Date (With a Twist)


A coworker gave me a list of data. One of the columns of this data was a
date field formated custom in mm/dd/yyyy format. The problem was that
when my coworker sorted the date field it was sorting by the day.

No problem I thought, so I created a new column typed in =year(e2)
which was the cell of the first date. To my suprise the data came back
as 1905. The date in E2 was 5/16/2003. If I did =month(e2), I got
January (in mmmm) format.

What gives?


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