I am not referring to your response Allllen, I am highlighting the points I
made earlier to the OP.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"Allllen" wrote in message
...
good point and I agree that this is totally messed up, but if you go back
to
his original question all i did was make sure that he got it in the format
he
was trying to enter without having to type it in again
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Allllen


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

Call me stupid, but if you format a number to have a - as the 5th
character,
won't the FIND always return 5. In addition, a number such as 12.34 will
also return 5.

Confused!

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"hui" wrote in message
...
Haha....it works well, very good. thank you very much Allllen

hui


"Allllen"
...
OK try this instead then:

A B C
1 1978-9-22 =TEXT(A1,"yyyy-m-dd") =FIND("-",B1)
2

Please rate me.

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Allllen


"hui" wrote:

when I set Column as TEXT, the content changes and look like
number,
such
as
A1(1978-9-22) change 28734. may I avoid it?

thanks




"Allllen"
...
1) Format cell A1 as text (under Format Cells)
2) Enter 1978-9-22
3) Now your find function will work. The down side of this is
that
cell
A1
is now a text and not a number (means Excel won't be able to
think of
it
as a
date).

Instead of formatting cell A1 as a text, you could just type
'1978-9-22
(with the apostrophe). That has much the same effect.

If you can avoid having it as a text I would recommend leaving
this
as
a
date like bob suggests because it is much more flexible like
that.
Depends
what you want to do with it of course.

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Allllen


"hui" wrote:

I set A1="1978-9-22", B1="find("-",A1)" and return, but B1 shows
#VALUE!,
why? How can I resolve it? thanks in advance.

A B C
1 1978-9-22 =find("-",A1)
2
3


hui