Excel 2016 not recognising custom date format

Woolnut

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Hi All,

I am having some issues with getting Excel to recognise that the data in one of my columns is actually a date, but is formatted as DAY, 01/01/2019. I have created a custom format for the column, which is ddd, dd/mm/yyy but this doesn't appear to have helped...

I don't want to reformat the column as the data is being pulled from an RSS feed via Power Query, so any help in getting this column to be recognised as a date would be great as i need to be able to sort by date on it :)

Thanks in advance
 

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It sounds like your dates are actually coming through as text (formatting the cells won't affect the type of contents), so you'll need to parse the column in PQ to convert it to an actual date value.
 
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Thanks :)

I am looking at the Editor right now and have changed the column to date, which has left most of the cells with an error.

I've added a step to remove the DAY part of the cell, using the split column by delimiter which has left me with a basic date format of 01/01/2019. This is still giving me errors when i change the column to a date format, but not as many.

Strange... Any other ideas? :)
 
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Is there a leading space in that column perhaps?
 
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Doesn't appear so, I have bodged my way round it now so i can filter properly. Thanks for the help
 
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