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Count the number of times specific text appears in a column
I have a column of dates in various formats (sometimes the year is first,
sometimes not). I would like to determine the number of times a specific four-digit year occurs withing the column. Can you help me? Thanks! -- Nannie |
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It's pretty easy if Access knows they're dates. If Access thinks they're
just random strings of numbers, it takes an extra step. Since you said the dates are in various formats, and I kind of figure your column has all the same format setting -- not very certainly, but it's the likely supposition -- let's assume the format setting is text, and Excel doesn't know that column has dates in it. So first you have to get Excel to know what dates are represented there. Set up a "helper" column to the right that uses the DATEVALUE function. If all your text dates are in column C, let this first helper column (in col M, let's say) has the function =DATEVALUE(C2) in M2. That means M has not a text value but a real Excel date value in it corresponding to what's in col C. Now in col N put =YEAR(M2); thus in col N is the year represented by the date in col C. To determine how many of those say 2002, for instance, use the formula =COUNTIF(N,2002). I don't use COUNTIF much, so take this with a grain of salt -- look it up, check it out with other Excel jocks, test it for yourself etc. --- "Nannie" wrote: I have a column of dates in various formats (sometimes the year is first, sometimes not). I would like to determine the number of times a specific four-digit year occurs withing the column. |
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Are they text fields or real dates just formatted in different ways?
-- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "Nannie" wrote in message ... I have a column of dates in various formats (sometimes the year is first, sometimes not). I would like to determine the number of times a specific four-digit year occurs withing the column. Can you help me? Thanks! -- Nannie |
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They are formatted as dates but most were entered as =xdate(1860,6,11,"yyyy,
mm dd") although some look like ~1862 or after 1862. They are civil war era dates and Excel can't handle them. (Seems strange Excel doesn't have the choice of displaying dates with years first.) Thanks for any assistance! -- Nannie "Bob Phillips" wrote: Are they text fields or real dates just formatted in different ways? -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "Nannie" wrote in message ... I have a column of dates in various formats (sometimes the year is first, sometimes not). I would like to determine the number of times a specific four-digit year occurs withing the column. Can you help me? Thanks! -- Nannie |
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What is xdate? I don't know that function, it must be a UDF.
-- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "Nannie" wrote in message ... They are formatted as dates but most were entered as =xdate(1860,6,11,"yyyy, mm dd") although some look like ~1862 or after 1862. They are civil war era dates and Excel can't handle them. (Seems strange Excel doesn't have the choice of displaying dates with years first.) Thanks for any assistance! -- Nannie "Bob Phillips" wrote: Are they text fields or real dates just formatted in different ways? -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "Nannie" wrote in message ... I have a column of dates in various formats (sometimes the year is first, sometimes not). I would like to determine the number of times a specific four-digit year occurs withing the column. Can you help me? Thanks! -- Nannie |
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http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/xdate.htm
And to answer part of the OP's original question, Excel certainly can display dates with the year first. But it sounds as if you are trying to use vague text, rather than specific dates. And to try to answer more of the original question, for normal Excel dates YEAR() gives the year (as Bob Bridges referred to in his reply), and the link above implies that there is an equivalent XDATEYEAR function in John's addin. And to answer the implied question in the *subject line* of the OP's original message, you need to remember that Excel dates are not stored as text, but as numbers. If you want to manipulate them as text and look for text strings such as the year part of the date, you can convert from date to text using the TEXT function. -- David Biddulph "Bob Phillips" wrote in message ... What is xdate? I don't know that function, it must be a UDF. -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "Nannie" wrote in message ... They are formatted as dates but most were entered as =xdate(1860,6,11,"yyyy, mm dd") although some look like ~1862 or after 1862. They are civil war era dates and Excel can't handle them. (Seems strange Excel doesn't have the choice of displaying dates with years first.) Thanks for any assistance! -- Nannie "Bob Phillips" wrote: Are they text fields or real dates just formatted in different ways? -- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) "Nannie" wrote in message ... I have a column of dates in various formats (sometimes the year is first, sometimes not). I would like to determine the number of times a specific four-digit year occurs withing the column. Can you help me? Thanks! -- Nannie |
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