# Excel question - sorting by date

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-question-sorting-by-date/580028>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 28, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-question-sorting-by-date/580028 "2011-04-28T13:41:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-question-sorting-by-date/580028/21 "2011-05-02T10:14:19Z")

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Copying it, and then using Paste Special -\> Text (or plain text) doesn’t work? It should be doing the same thing as copying to notepad.

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**Author:** ![Panurge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@Panurge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Panurge)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/excel-question-sorting-by-date/580028/22 "2011-05-02T12:28:35Z")

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There is no Paste Special -\> Text option, I think. The closest (probably) is “Values” which doesn’t work.

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