Microsoft Excel has a feature that allows you to convert a number into a date, which is quite simple to do. This tutorial explains the steps to convert a number into a date format in Excel.

Excel has several custom formatting options for duration of time, and it will recognize most times you enter, provided you use a colon between the hours, minutes and seconds.

You can follow any one of these methods below to convert numbers stored as text to numbers in Microsoft Excel: Using the Text to column button Using Value function Changing the format Use Paste ...