Tried all your suggestions, nothing worked. I'm not savvy enough with the
TRIMALL info you provided.

Thank you!

"Niek Otten" wrote:

Here's a checklist which will help you solve most known cases. Make a copy of your workbook before trying! Always use Excel's
ISNUMBER() function to check your cells; maybe you solved your problem in the first step!

· Format an empty cell as Number. Enter the number 1 in it. EditCopy.
Select your "numbers". EditPaste Special, check Multiply. Hopefully your cells are "real" Numbers now
· If that doesn't help, there may be spaces in your "numbers". You can use the LEN() function to compare the number
of characters that Excel sees in the cell with the number of characters you see. If you suspect spaces, use Excel's TRIM()
function to remove them
· If that doesn't help, there may be nonprintable characters in your "numbers". You can use Excel's CLEAN() function
to remove most of them
· If that doesn't help, there may be non-breaking spaces in your "numbers" (mostly acquired from Web Pages). Use
David McRitchie's TRIMALL() function to remove them. It can be downloaded he
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/join.htm#trimall


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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel


"curious1" wrote in message ...
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| I cannot get the above dates to sort correctly in descending order when
| imported from another source.