<What is shown is not what the value of the cell is.

Unless you entered the dates as text

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Niek Otten
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"Niek Otten" wrote in message
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Your assumption is incorrect.
What is shown is not what the value of the cell is.
Just try.

To know all about dates, look he

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm#AddingDates

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Niek Otten
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"Munchkin" wrote in message
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Obviously, since the month is the first number the sort feature sorts by
that. Is there a way to sort by the year instead - or do I need to add
another column that just shows the year and sort by that first?