The reason for the conversion was to put a long column of text dates, like 03/10/1998 in chronological order.

After much searching, I found this gem on my hard drive. It works for OpenOffice Calc...

The field shows as text 10/11/1985. How can I convert it to number?

I've got a refurbished Lenovo M95p and the sound is too low: either on the computer internal speaker or a pair of small external fed from the front earphone jack. The Lenovo site says that I have the...