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Format date in a cell
How do I format cells so that when I put in a number it automatically changes
it to a date? I set up the cells using Format-Number-Date-03/14/01. But when I type in 101408 the cell shows 08/22/77. What am I doing wrong?? |
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Hi,
Dates in Excel are numbers and the number 101408 is August 22 2077 so Excel is doing exactly what your telling it to do. Without resorting to VB I don't know of any way to make it recognise that number as the date you believe it is. can't you enter delimeters 10/14/08 Mike "Mary Put" wrote: How do I format cells so that when I put in a number it automatically changes it to a date? I set up the cells using Format-Number-Date-03/14/01. But when I type in 101408 the cell shows 08/22/77. What am I doing wrong?? |
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You forgot to type in the slants.
What you've got is the 101408th day in Excel's calendar, which is 22nd August 2177. If you've got a lot of data where you forgot the slants, you can convert with Data/ Text to Columns if you tell it (at the 3rd stage of 3 in the wizard) that you want the data to be interpreted as dates in MDY format. -- David Biddulph Mary Put wrote: How do I format cells so that when I put in a number it automatically changes it to a date? I set up the cells using Format-Number-Date-03/14/01. But when I type in 101408 the cell shows 08/22/77. What am I doing wrong?? |
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Mike H wrote:
Dates in Excel are numbers and the number 101408 is August 22 2077 ... 2177 , not 2077 ? ...so Excel is doing exactly what your telling it to do. Without resorting to VB I don't know of any way to make it recognise that number as the date you believe it is. ... Data/ Text to Columns, Mike. -- David Biddulph |
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Agreed, only a mere hundred years out :)
"David Biddulph" wrote: Mike H wrote: Dates in Excel are numbers and the number 101408 is August 22 2077 ... 2177 , not 2077 ? ...so Excel is doing exactly what your telling it to do. Without resorting to VB I don't know of any way to make it recognise that number as the date you believe it is. ... Data/ Text to Columns, Mike. -- David Biddulph |
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