How do you format a number into a date?
Check that your numbers are numbers and not text with leading or
trailing spaces - if you do have these then you can get rid of them
using TRIM(A1) wherever A1 appears in Toppers' formula.
Hope this helps.
Pete
kim wrote:
hmm, i tried this and i get a Value error in the cell. I must be doing
something wrong.
"Toppers" wrote:
... I assumed UK date format (DDMMYYYY) so for US format:
=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3 ,2)),DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,1),MID(A1,2,2)))
"Toppers" wrote:
one wy ...
=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,3,2),LEFT(A1 ,2)),DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,2,2),LEFT(A1,1)))
format cell as DATE
"kim" wrote:
I have a colunm of numbers some are eight digits long, 12221967, and some are
seven digits long, 8031985. How would i format them into a date like
12/22/1967 or 8/03/1985??
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