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No, but I think it's a lot. I'd bet that the vast majority of those round-trip through string serialization, requiring no further user action based on my recommendation.



Disagree, the most common way for an experienced user to type a date into Excel is as a partial date if it is this year, eg 4-Apr, which is instantly converted to 04/04/2025 or whatever.

The vast majority of dates I personally type into Excel would be in this form.


Format the column as date. Or turn on the global option for loose type insanity.


In this thread: people who don't know how to use Excel tell people who do know, how to use it.




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