no way to detect 11196 as being a mid-January or early-November

There's always a monkey wrench!

Biff

"Bryan Hessey"
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Whilst I agree that TTC is usually best, it will correctly convert 6
character dates, it seems to have no luck with 5 character dates as
displayed by the OP.

Providing that the middle unit (Months for English dates, Days for
American dates)are entered as 2 digit format (the number '10' is not a
good indicater) then either a formula of

=text(a1,"000000")

and then put through TTC, or


=IF(LEN(A1)=6,LEFT(A1,2)&"/"&MID(A1,3,2)&"/"&MID(A1,5,2),LEFT(A1,1)&"/"&MID(A1,2,2)&"/"&MID(A1,4,2))
or

=IF(LEN(A1)=6,MID(A1,3,2)&"/"&MID(A1,1,2)&"/"&MID(A1,5,2),MID(A1,2,2)&"/"&MID(A1,1,1)&"/"&MID(A1,4,2))

will give an English or American date format.

However, if the middle figure (of DMY or MDY) is a single digit, there
is no way to detect 11196 as being a mid-January or early-November date
in either system.

Hope this helps (as opposed to adding confusion)


RagDyer Wrote:
TTC is usually the easiest and the best way to convert this type of text
to
true dates,
*BUT*
In the third page of the wizard, after clicking on "Date",
One must realize that the format to click on,
Is *not* the format you want to display,
BUT the format that the present text is currently in.
You're telling TTC where to convert *from*.

If this choice is not done correctly, either no conversion will be made
(not
so bad), or a wrong conversion will be made (bad).

After the true dates are established, then they can be custom formatted
to
the desired display.
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Regards,

RD

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"Gary''s Student" wrote in
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What I got was:

120100 12 1 0 12/1/1900

I see your point. My method will always map into the last century.
Good catch!
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Gary's Student


"Biff" wrote:

Try that with this:

120100

Biff

"Gary''s Student" wrote
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In A1: 81096
In B1: =INT(A1/10000) month part shows 8
In C1: =INT((A1-10000*B1)/100) day part shows 10
In D1: =A1-10000*B1-100*C1 year part shows 96
In E1: =DATE(D1,B1,C1)
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Gary's Student


"Frank Winston" wrote:

Is there a way to convert a column of text, date values (entered
as
81096,
for example) to valid date format, 8/10/96? I could not get
the
DATEVALUE
function to do this.





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