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Date in wrong format
I have a cell that is in date format. However it is in the wrong format. What
shows as 7/11/2001 really is supposed to be 2007/11/01. What shows as 7/12/2005 really should be 2007/12/05. Is there a formula I can use to convert these. I dont care if the result is a date, text or numeric formattted cell so long as 7/11/2001 reads as 2007/11/01 (11/01/2007) would be acceptable as well. Thanks |
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Date in wrong format
hi
custom fomat maybe right click cell with date. click format cells.click number tab. in the catagory window, click custom. in the type box enter.... yyyy/dd/mm click ok. you can now format any cell with this format. regards FSt1 "GKW in GA" wrote: I have a cell that is in date format. However it is in the wrong format. What shows as 7/11/2001 really is supposed to be 2007/11/01. What shows as 7/12/2005 really should be 2007/12/05. Is there a formula I can use to convert these. I dont care if the result is a date, text or numeric formattted cell so long as 7/11/2001 reads as 2007/11/01 (11/01/2007) would be acceptable as well. Thanks |
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Date in wrong format
What is it that you entered into this cell in the first place?
Rick "GKW in GA" wrote in message ... I have a cell that is in date format. However it is in the wrong format. What shows as 7/11/2001 really is supposed to be 2007/11/01. What shows as 7/12/2005 really should be 2007/12/05. Is there a formula I can use to convert these. I dont care if the result is a date, text or numeric formattted cell so long as 7/11/2001 reads as 2007/11/01 (11/01/2007) would be acceptable as well. Thanks |
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Yeah, I'm with Rick; the problem here isn't that the format is misleading but
(judging by your description) that the spreadsheet misunderstood the dates as they were entered. To put it another way, Excel isn't displaying the dates in a way that looks confusing to you; it really thinks that that first date is supposed to be July 11, 2001, and the second July 12, 2005. Re-enter those dates correctly and you'll have no difficulty getting them to display in whatever format you choose. --- "Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote: What is it that you entered into this cell in the first place? "GKW in GA" wrote in message ... I have a cell that is in date format. However it is in the wrong format. What shows as 7/11/2001 really is supposed to be 2007/11/01. What shows as 7/12/2005 really should be 2007/12/05. Is there a formula I can use to convert these. I dont care if the result is a date, text or numeric formattted cell so long as 7/11/2001 reads as 2007/11/01 (11/01/2007) would be acceptable as well. |
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yes, I agree, they were entered incorrectly in the first place. THe problem
is they were not keyed in, they were loaded from another application where they were formatted incorrectly before being imported to Excel. Problem is there are several thousand of them. That is why I was looking for a formula. "Bob Bridges" wrote: Yeah, I'm with Rick; the problem here isn't that the format is misleading but (judging by your description) that the spreadsheet misunderstood the dates as they were entered. To put it another way, Excel isn't displaying the dates in a way that looks confusing to you; it really thinks that that first date is supposed to be July 11, 2001, and the second July 12, 2005. Re-enter those dates correctly and you'll have no difficulty getting them to display in whatever format you choose. --- "Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote: What is it that you entered into this cell in the first place? "GKW in GA" wrote in message ... I have a cell that is in date format. However it is in the wrong format. What shows as 7/11/2001 really is supposed to be 2007/11/01. What shows as 7/12/2005 really should be 2007/12/05. Is there a formula I can use to convert these. I dont care if the result is a date, text or numeric formattted cell so long as 7/11/2001 reads as 2007/11/01 (11/01/2007) would be acceptable as well. |
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Date in wrong format
I believe I have come up with a formula that will do the trick:
=CONCATENATE("20",TEXT(MONTH(C12),"00"),"/"DAY(C12),"/",RIGHT(YEAR(C12),2)) This will convert 7/11/2001 to 2007/11/01 "GKW in GA" wrote: yes, I agree, they were entered incorrectly in the first place. THe problem is they were not keyed in, they were loaded from another application where they were formatted incorrectly before being imported to Excel. Problem is there are several thousand of them. That is why I was looking for a formula. "Bob Bridges" wrote: Yeah, I'm with Rick; the problem here isn't that the format is misleading but (judging by your description) that the spreadsheet misunderstood the dates as they were entered. To put it another way, Excel isn't displaying the dates in a way that looks confusing to you; it really thinks that that first date is supposed to be July 11, 2001, and the second July 12, 2005. Re-enter those dates correctly and you'll have no difficulty getting them to display in whatever format you choose. --- "Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote: What is it that you entered into this cell in the first place? "GKW in GA" wrote in message ... I have a cell that is in date format. However it is in the wrong format. What shows as 7/11/2001 really is supposed to be 2007/11/01. What shows as 7/12/2005 really should be 2007/12/05. Is there a formula I can use to convert these. I dont care if the result is a date, text or numeric formattted cell so long as 7/11/2001 reads as 2007/11/01 (11/01/2007) would be acceptable as well. |
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A couple of things...
First, your proposed formula does not return a date, it returns text that happens to look like a date... you will not be able to do some date manipulations with it. If you put a double unary (two minus signs) in front of it, that will convert it to a date; although, depending on your system settings, it may not be the correct date (your presentation of the year first, followed by what I assume is the month, then day may confuse the conversion). This brings me to the second "problem"... it is impossible to tell from your example dates which number is the month and which is the day (it is usually best with example dates to use a day number greater than 12). Assuming for the incorrectly entered date of 7/11/2001, that the year is 2007, the month is 11 and the day is 1, use this formula... =DATE(MONTH(A1),DAY(A1),YEAR(A1)-2000) which will return a real date (or date serial number depending on the cell format)... just reset the cell format to the Custom format of yyyy/mm/dd and it will remain a real date, but look the way you want. Rick "GKW in GA" wrote in message ... I believe I have come up with a formula that will do the trick: =CONCATENATE("20",TEXT(MONTH(C12),"00"),"/"DAY(C12),"/",RIGHT(YEAR(C12),2)) This will convert 7/11/2001 to 2007/11/01 "GKW in GA" wrote: yes, I agree, they were entered incorrectly in the first place. THe problem is they were not keyed in, they were loaded from another application where they were formatted incorrectly before being imported to Excel. Problem is there are several thousand of them. That is why I was looking for a formula. "Bob Bridges" wrote: Yeah, I'm with Rick; the problem here isn't that the format is misleading but (judging by your description) that the spreadsheet misunderstood the dates as they were entered. To put it another way, Excel isn't displaying the dates in a way that looks confusing to you; it really thinks that that first date is supposed to be July 11, 2001, and the second July 12, 2005. Re-enter those dates correctly and you'll have no difficulty getting them to display in whatever format you choose. --- "Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" wrote: What is it that you entered into this cell in the first place? "GKW in GA" wrote in message ... I have a cell that is in date format. However it is in the wrong format. What shows as 7/11/2001 really is supposed to be 2007/11/01. What shows as 7/12/2005 really should be 2007/12/05. Is there a formula I can use to convert these. I dont care if the result is a date, text or numeric formattted cell so long as 7/11/2001 reads as 2007/11/01 (11/01/2007) would be acceptable as well. |
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