Excel’s UPPER function has your back. Syntax: =UPPER (text) This function takes one argument—the text you want to convert. You can reference a cell or input the text directly into the formula.

text from one or more cells into one cell—date cells with text cells in an Excel formula, you must first convert the referenced date cells to text; otherwise, you end up with an unexpected result.

When this happens, use the DATEVALUE function to convert the text dates to Excel serial numbers. To test this function, enter five dates—as text—in cells A5 through A9.

Excel’s Date filters are very comprehensive and allow you to extract individual or multiple dates by day, week, month, year, quarter, or year-to-date, plus dates within ranges.