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How to Remove Date Format in Excel Cell (Convert Date to Text or General)

Struggling with Excel automatically changing your numbers into dates, or want to completely remove date formatting from a cell? In this quick and easy tutorial, you'll learn 3 simple methods to remove date formats and convert your cells back to General format, Plain Text, or clean unformatted data.

📌 What You'll Learn in This Video:
• How to change Date format to General or Text via the Number Format menu
• How to completely Clear Formats without losing your cell data
• How to convert dates into permanent text strings using the TEXT formula or apostrophe trick
• Why Excel turns dates into 5-digit numbers (and how to fix it!)

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00:00hi everyone to remove date formatting in microsoft excel and convert the cell back to the standard
00:06text or a general number you need to follow these tabs so first you need to select the cell or
00:13you
00:13can select the range of cells you want to change and then go to the home tab on the ribbon
00:21and
00:21in the found group you need to click on this small arrow and then click on the number tab
00:28and now you can select the journal to display it as a serial number or you can select the
00:36text to display it as a plain tag click ok to apply so in the second method if you want
00:44to reset the
00:45cell completely removing colors borders and date format for this you need to select the cell or you
00:52can select the range as well then go to the home tab and in the editing group you need to
00:59click
00:59on this small arrow click on this clear and click on the clear format in the third method if you
01:06want
01:06to keep the date visible but ensure excel tree reads add purely as plain text so for this you need
01:14to
01:14put an apostrophe before the date so for this you need to press the f2 and put a apostrophe before
01:22the
01:22date like this one let me open my on screen keyboard i'll do it again so press the f2 and
01:33here is the apostrophe you just need to click on before the date like this one
01:41so this is pretty simple and easy i hope you understand how you can remove date format in
01:45excel cell if you think this video is helpful please support my channel thanks for watching
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