and we’ll do four it’s giving us completely random numbers why is that because underneath the date range there are um numbers right so if i go right here and i make this a general it’s going to have the numbers and look these are the first four characters from the right and so it’s doing what it’s supposed to do but it’s not doing what we actually want and that’s the issue so how can we convert this now there are a ton of different ways um but the quickest probably the easiest besides actually writing writing it out like this like 11-2-2001 which then converts it to a date format um but what you can do you know just so you know you can create it as a text you can do 11-2-2001 and now it will stay a text string and as you can tell these are a little bit different because this one is uh formatted or situated on the right and