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I am trying to use the Auctiva CSV Reports (BETA), but have a problem sorting by date. The generated format for this field is "Weekday, day, year, time AM/PM", however Excel does not recognize that as a date format, so I am unable to sort on that column. It is not even possible to cast those as a date by formatting the cells. An attempt to sort by date doesn't work, it will give a string sort, with all the Monday values first, etc. What I am doing now is a search and replace for each of the 7 weekday names, which is not efficient.

So, unless someone can tell me what I am missing here, I guess this is a suggestion to allow that field to be formatted by the user. Come to think of it, even without the weekday having a fixed format is problematic because some countries use a different date format, and month names are not the same.
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Here is a kludge workaround, still time consuming. In an empty cell in the first row of data (2nd row), use this formula, adjusted for whatever the column letter is for the date field.

=RIGHT(D2,LEN(D2)-SEARCH(", ",D2)-1)

Then copy that cell to all the other rows in the same column. This strips of the weekday name from the values and that new column can be sorted as a date field.

Still should be fixed in the output.

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