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Site design / logo 2022 Stack Exchange Inc; user contributions licensed under CC BY-SA. The selected data are in text format. If you want to have a free trial ( I click on a cell in the new column that pasted values special but it does not work. is not recognised by Excel, hence that could be the reason it could not sort. 3. I checked the format and it was 'general' so i changed it to a custom date format (ddd dd mmm) and the cells in that column now show as being a custom date format but the filter still offers A-Z. July 30, 2019. 00:00 Intro of the date sort order not working00:36 Reason these 'dates' are sorting badly00:47 How do we know if a date is a valid Excel date01:08 Convert t. Leave the default Expand the selection option selected, and click Sort: That's it! Convert dates stored as text to dates. You need to convert all the values in the column to date in order to sort by date. Nov 10, 2020 at 5:13. dropdown.parentNode.submit(); Click OK. You must log in or register to reply here.