Some dates recognized as dates, some dates not recognized. Why?

Question

Here is a list of dates:

04-22-11
12-19-11
11-04-11
12-08-11
09-27-11
09-27-11
04-01-11

When you copy this list in Excel, some of th

Answer 1

The quickest and easiest way to fix this is to do a find and replace on your date seperator, with the same separator. For example in this case Find "-" and Replace with "-", not sure why this works but you will find all dates are right-aligned as they should be after doing this.