Sir, You will be remembered till my death. It took 7 minutes to understand this. Thank you so much.

Wow, it's rare to find a video that actually fixes stuff on Excel, and yours did. Thanks man!

Completely useful and what enormous frustration you cured with very straightforward and easy to follow steps with no added filler. Thanks!

This is the first of like 15 different sites and videos that did this properly. Everyone else took the easy way out by only having one year. Thank you for explaining this properly!

YOU'RE OUT HERE SAVING LIVES!!!!!!!!!!

More than 3 years later and this video is still relevant. Thank you so much for this! I've been racking my brains out for a solution! This solved my problem!

Saved me about four days' work on my master's thesis. Thank you!

Thank you! This video sorted my issue! The big secret was just to make sure none of the delimiters were selected in the Text To Column dialog box and that when you select the date there you select WHAT IT CURRENTLY IS, rather than WHAT YOU WANT IT TO BE, as I had been doing, as you change it to what you want it to be after it's properly formatted as date. Thank you again!!

After trying to figure this out for 3 hours I am so happy that I found your video! Thanks mate!

I love you. I saw someone type out these instructions and when I followed them they didn't work. That person never specified to deselect things in the delimiter column. Anyway, when my dates moved to the right I gasped so loud that I scared my cat. It has been DAYS since I started working on this spreadsheet and I was about to give up and just deal with them unsorted

Excellent, I have been struggling for solution with this problem . Consulted with my colleagues but in vain, Problem solved with your suggestion . So great of you. Thank You

I can’t believe I spent so long trying to sort this before seeing this video! Fantastic tutorial! Thx

Thanks for this fix. I refer to it every year when preparing my books to take to my accountant. I have usually forgotten the correction method by then. Your explanations are lucid and your voice timbre easy on the ear. Thank you. We tech-blockheads need people like you!

This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much.

Have spent ages trying to find out why this wasn't working - thank you SO much for this video! 🙂

This is the first video that actually helped me and I’m in the US! It was the text to columns that I needed to fix. Thank you!!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

My god, I hate Excel SO MUCH. Why does this error even exist? I set my column do Date format before I entered any data and STILL I had this problem. It makes no sense! That aside - thank you! Life saver.

You are a genius my friend...thank you SO MUCH for giving clear instructions on how to solve this very annoying issue

I usually just get the info I need and move on but wanted to take the time to say thanks for providing value to your subscribers & those of us who found you in desperation!!

Brilliant man! Even 2 years later you're still saving the world! Thanks very much for this!

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have been battling with sorting my accounts. Now I finally can complete them

Legend been trying to sort this for so long!

I have struggled with this for three days - I got the solution from you in a couple of minutes but watched the whole thing anyway! I was using the text to coloums but not removing all the qualifiers! Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're the Best! Like many others, I've spent at least an hour trying to find out how to fix the problem. Project for work is now complete thanks to you.

Such a simple ,clear and understandable video. Thank you so much.

Many articles tell you to change the cell format, but the issue isn't resolved after doing so. Thank you for sharing with us the true fix for the problem!

God bless you! I have a report due tomorrow first thing in the morning and I was able to sort the dates on my pivot table thanks to your tips. Truly!

You are a star, I was beginning to think I'd have to sort thousands of lines of data out manually. Thank you sooo much.

Bless you! I have been tearing my hair out over this for an hour. The Microsoft Tech Help had NO idea how to sort it. I had my suspicions that it was some kind of bug. I could not believe that Excel designers had just decided to do away with such a useful function. The alignment (left instead of right) of the dates is the giveaway. Although, how I shall remember how to solve it next time I need to do it ... You explain it clearly, but an ordinary user would never think of such a thing.

It worked for me, thanks to your easy steps I’ve managed to avoid big chaos in a report. This saved my day.

Thank you, I was going crazy trying to figure out why my dates were sorting by months and years! And now I have the new tool of knowing when to check if the field is True or False for text!

Awesome, googling for half an hour didn't give me a solution, this video hit the spot!

AWESOME!!! FINALLY, an easy solution to a problem I get every time a client sends me their Excel file.

I saw 5 years ago and didn’t trust this video at all… This video has stood the test of time… I just impressed my boss…. thank you 🙏🏽

I know this is seven years young, but THANK YOU! It's still relevant and very much helpful.

This has been driving me insane, forever. Thank you, not only for the solution, but the tempo and explanation was great.😊👏

Thank you! For some reason this video is still relevant six years after release. MS should fix this!

I did have an irritating problem sorting the dates, your video has managed to fix that for me. Amazing work, loads of love

Thank you very much! I have been trying to format some date in my file for days which has left me frustrated until I came across this video. Very straightforward.

YOU'RE A LEGEND! BACK FROM THE FUTURE

What an incredibly useful video. Man, I searched forever for thaat answer. Great work.

Man! I was going crazy until I watched this video! Thank you for solving my problem!

I had over 700 transactions in one of my spreadsheets and guess what your brilliant......I was able to sort the info using your instructions. They were clear to understand and easy to do...Thank you for Sharing this info...Regards, Sue from Brisbane Australia.

O MY GOD.... This was so incredibly well explained and so helpful... i am almost in tears. God bless you so much sir and thank you greatly

Oh my goodness!!! You are simply HEAVEN SENT!!!! This fixed up an error in my database in seconds. Thou art AWESOME!!!!

OMG, I've waisted more than an hour trying to figure this thing out. Thanks a lot man.

All glories to the master!!!! It took me 1hr to figure out. After watching this video, i am extremely happy!!! Thank uuuuuuuu sooooo much

You are my hero. Thank you. I have been mishandling massive Excel spreadsheets at my work now for months because of this issue. THANK YOU!!!!

Excellent! Never would have gotten this without this video. Mine is properly ordered by date now.

Really helpful and fixed my issue which I spent hours looking through youtube without luck. Thanks a lot.

I watch multiple videos before coming here all in vain.. thanks for the superquick solution. Appreciated!!

I spend a day tackle this problem. This video helps to solve my problem quickly. Thanks for uploading awesome solution.

You are the best thing that happened to me this day! I have been trying to figure out this for ages!!!! Was about to go crazy! Thank you from Argentina!!! God bless you!!!

Thank you. Solved my dating issue. While my social dates still are problematic, at least you solved my Excel dates.

Thank you I spent hours trying to find out what was wrong and the true/false check and your solution worked. XL said dates but they were not recognised. I had 400 dates from a company accounts program that I wanted in XL. All now sorted!

Oh my goodness, this was exactly what I've been trying to do and it's been so frustrating trying to get this to work. Thank you so much for sharing this!!!

I watched a previous video by someone else but it did not solve my problem. After watching your video my problem with the date sort was solved. Thank you!

Thank you so much. I just happened to stumble upon this video and channel. I was trying to find a solution for this for past few months and finally given and used power query to solve , which I always felt an overkill for simple issue.

Many Excel-induced tears were shed prior to this video.

Very impressed! It was exactly what you described. It was recognise as text. Changed via 'text to column' and it worked. thank you

Excellent!!! Was looking all over the place for a solution to the issue after downloading a CSV file. You nailed it. Thank You!!

This is the best video in the history of video's. Thank you very much for making my day 1000x easier

Thank you! I can't tell you how many hours over several years this has haunted me....

You just rescued me. A database of more than 7k entries wouldn’t sort by date

This video save my life!!!!!!!!!! EXTREMELY HELPFUL!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!

This issue was so frustrating, thank you! Your solution worked like a charm! GOD BLESS YOU!

I know you did this video 7 years ago but THANK YOU.

Thank you!!! This is just what I needed to solve this issue. I had been trying to use text to columns and then a concat formula but nothing was working. You have made my life a lot easier and saved a bunch of time :) Thanks!

Amazing video saved 2 hours of manual work!!!

I have been stressing whole day !! This video saved my life !!! THANK YOU SO MUCH ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

For any and all of those who this has not worked for. Go into the cell/s that equal TRUE with the text function and delete the space before the date/text. Alternatively, you can use the trim function to remove any unnecessary spacing.

Thank you. The explanation was what I needed after several searches

Wow! A video that actually solved my problem, easily and quickly. Thank you!!

These are 8 minutes very well spended, thank you very much man :) I wanted to ask in merit of the sorting, does the other data connected to the dates get sorted as well?

Wow i never thought id find the solution to this. I know ill be a hero at work when i share this with some coworkers!

You sir deserve my subscription :P Tried so many videos and it seems they all had the same solution and didn't work for me. Your solution resolved my problem. Thank you :) Keep up the good work

Give this man a medal

Thank you so much, I used to overlook this issue but now I really needed those days sorted, you saved my report!

The struggle was real, thank you 😊🙏.

This was very helpful, and solved a problem that was costing me a lot of time!

This video has solved an long-term, ongoing nightmare for me, so thank you very, very much! However, I wonder if you can help with another sorting issue. Since Excel doesn't recognize dates prior to Jan 1 1900, what's the best way to format dates prior to that time? I think it will sort correctly if I enter the data as text this way yyyy-mm-dd, (for example 1888-12-01), but I'm not sure how to create that format. Thanks!

You saved me hours of manual work, endless thank you!!

Thank you SO much for this solution. Your tutorials are excellent. I know where to come in future!

A very very clear explanation. Thank you so much. Learning thru your videos here in the Philippines. Thank you so much🤩🤩🤩

Video is 7years and still useful

I actually love you! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just spent 5 hours wrestling with excel until you came along, you brilliant man!!

After so many effort I found this video and it's really works .Thanks a loooot👍

Good thing I found this! My problem is all sorted out!

Thank you! Been trying to work out why it wasnt working for ages!!

7 years later and this still saved my ass 😂

Thank you. This video was really helpful after I had been struggling for the past two days😅

Thankyou so very much, you fixed my problem! I've been trying to fix it for weeks and other videos haven't helped.

Dear Tech Train, You absolutely made my day. Thank you so much for this video!

I wish I would have watched this video 5 years ago. Radical. Also - great little facts in there like text defaulting to left orientation.

Thank you so much, been searching around for a simple explanation like this!! Solved :) everyone else made no sense at all and this is a really simple fix!

Just what I needed. Finally got a way to solve my date problem. Thank you very much

Thank you so much! Fixed my issue still in 2023, wonderful!

Thank you, Thank you Thank you! I have struggled with this for years. This was clear and concise!

so helpful! this issue has been a real problem for me, for a long long time. Thank you!

I've seen this problem with client's files that were created by exporting from a data base. The other way to create this problem is when you enter your dates not like they've been set up in your computer's preferences. Either way, it's probably not Excel's fault. The fact that the cells were aligned to the left and that sorting suggested A to Z were immediate giveaways. I would've used flash fill to solve the problem which is a bit easier but you need Excel 2013 or newer.