Concatenation prob
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 08:36:02 -0400, Ron Rosenfeld
wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:08:05 -0000, "Francis Hookham"
wrote:
A visually handicapped friend is secretary of his club.
He receives a list of events on a spreadsheet where the date is given as
follows:
Col A contains "Jan"
Col B contains "1"
Col C contains "Tuesday" (which is superfluous in this operation)
We know the year is 2008
I am having difficulty in concatenating "1" and "Jan" and "08" into Col D,
formatted as "d mmm yy", so I can do away with Cols A-C
(Not decided yet whether to simply drag a fromua down the cut and past
values back, or the run a macro which might save time in long run because it
could delete empty rows at same time)
Please help, it's going to take me hours by hand otherwise.
Francis Hookham
=--(B1&A1&"2008")
Format/Cells/Number/Custom Type: dddd, mmmm dd, yyyy
or one of the preset date formats.
--ron
I missed part of what you wrote.
You should format the result as "d mmm yy"
One other solution, if you want a TEXT representation of the date, would be
this formula:
=TEXT(A1&B1&"2008","d mmm yy")
After you have generated the results by one of the two methods above
Select the column
Edit/Copy
Edit/Paste Special/Values
You can then delete or hide columns A-C
--ron
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