Hi,

I have a table of immigration ships that have arrived in Australian shores.

Some....okay most.....of the ships arrived before 1900.

I was trying to sort by the arrival date, which is in the format of
DD MMM YYYY, but that didn't work, as there were some 1900 dates.

Tried to re-style the column to DD/MM/YYYY, but the pre-1900 dates
don't change to the new style.

Any suggestions on how to utilise the pre-1900 dates, so that Excel can
recognise
them.

Cheers in advance.
Craig.

You could use the add-in at http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/xdate.htm