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Default Amending date formats.

You can actually do the whole thing in one step with Text to Columns. You
just need to tell it what format the incoming data is in at the final stage
of the import wizard. --
David Biddulph

"Chiccada" wrote in message
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Managed to figure it out.

Got told the original data comes in as all US dates. Therefore, i just
text
to columns the dates, switched the month and the day. Then i concatenated
the
3 parts back together.

"David Biddulph" wrote:

How do you know which is which? With 26/6/07 or 6/26/07 it's obvious,
but
how do you know what 4/6/07 is intended to be? Can you perhaps rely on
all
the ones which are actually numbers [ISNUMBER()] being UK style, and all
those which are text cells [ISTEXT()] being US (or v.v.)?
--
David Biddulph

"Chiccada" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have a column in a spreadsheet which shows dates. These dates are
mixed
between U.S. style and UK style. What the quickes way to switch them
all
over
to UK style?

I have tried mass formatting the cells but this does not work and it
will
take me forever to adjust them individually.

Many thanks in advance,

Rik