Luckily, Excel offers handy formulas that allow you to convert text into upper case, lower case, title case, and even sentence case with minimal effort.

Click "OK" to change the cells' type from Text to Date and convert the dates to the proper format. Press "Ctrl-S" to save the spreadsheet.

How do I change a number into a date format in Excel? Microsoft Excel has a feature that allows you to convert a number into a date, which is quite simple to do.

Mary Ann Richardson explains that when concatenating date and text cell data in an Excel formula, you need to convert date cells to text to avoid unexpected results.

You can follow any one of these methods below to convert numbers stored as text to numbers in Microsoft Excel: Using the Text to column button Using Value function Changing the format Use Paste ...

SEE: 83 Excel tips every user should master (TechRepublic) In this Microsoft Excel tutorial, I’ll show you four easy ways to convert numbers stored as text to real numbers.