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Insert ' sign infront of dates
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i have the current visable values May-06 Jun-06 Jul-06 Aug-06 How do I insert ' (Quote sign) in front of dates in Col A so the underlying values 01/05/2006 01/06/2006 01/07/2006 01/08/2006 becomes the visable values '01/05/2006 '01/06/2006 '01/07/2006 '01/08/2006 Thanks In advance -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...excel/200609/1 |
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On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:07:09 GMT, "FIRSTROUNDKO via OfficeKB.com" <u15639@uwe
wrote: Hi! i have the current visable values May-06 Jun-06 Jul-06 Aug-06 How do I insert ' (Quote sign) in front of dates in Col A so the underlying values 01/05/2006 01/06/2006 01/07/2006 01/08/2006 becomes the visable values '01/05/2006 '01/06/2006 '01/07/2006 '01/08/2006 Thanks In advance Difficult without VBA. However, you could: 1. Format/Cells/Number/Custom Type: dd/mm/yyyy or use the formula in an adjacent column: =TEXT(A1,"dd/mm/yyyy") --ron |
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Insert ' sign infront of dates
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Format -- Cells... Number Tab Custom Format Enter the next line as the format "'" d-mm-yy Ed Ferrero Microsoft Excel MVP http://www.edferrero.com |
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Insert ' sign infront of dates
Ron
I dont mind using VBA Thanks Darren Ron Rosenfeld wrote: Hi! [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] Thanks In advance Difficult without VBA. However, you could: 1. Format/Cells/Number/Custom Type: dd/mm/yyyy or use the formula in an adjacent column: =TEXT(A1,"dd/mm/yyyy") --ron -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com |
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Insert ' sign infront of dates
This code will do it: paste this in as a macro, then highlight the
range of dates in question and run. Sub Add_Apostrophe() Dim rCell As Range For Each rCell In Selection.Cells rCell.Value = "'"& rcell.value Next rCell End Sub |
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Insert ' sign infront of dates
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:26:29 GMT, "FIRSTROUNDKO via OfficeKB.com" <u15639@uwe
wrote: Ron I dont mind using VBA Thanks Darren The simplest way would be to format the cells the way I suggested unless you absolutely require a text string instead of an Excel recognizable date. Does the formatting not provide you with what you want? For most purposes, I would have thought that would be better. If that is not a better solution, you could do what you want with a VBA macro: ========================= Option Explicit Sub FormatDate() Dim c As Range For Each c In Selection If IsDate(c.Value) Then c.Value = "'" & Format(c.Value, "dd/mm/yyyy") End If Next c End Sub ======================= Of course, the dates would now be text strings and not easily usable by Excel as dates. They might seem to be usable, but how they would be interpreted would be dependent on the Windows Regional Settings. In other words, on my (US-centric) machine, '01/05/06' would be interpreted as 5 Jan 2006; On a different machine, it might be interpreted as 1 May 2006. --ron |
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