You work often on CSV files in Excel and suddenly the CSV uses semicolon instead of comma, or comma instead of a semi colon. This sometimes happens when you have changed computers or if you receive the CSV file from a different source.
When using CSV files you may find that the CSV's are losing leading zeros when you open them. This is happening because Excel is assuming that if it is a number, it cannot having leading zeros so it just removes them.
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Determining the difference between 2 dates in Excel is a very common requirement. From a straight number of days, to workdays, to months/ years or fraction of a year, all the date difference options
If you regularly import CSV's into Excel you may find that sometimes the Excel CSV opens in one column instead of in separate columns as you would expect.
If you are having date format or sort issues in Excel (dates sort by months instead of day of month, you can't change the date format of a cell), it is because Excel does not recognise the date you gave it as a valid date.