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Help with date format mm/dd/yyyy vs. dd/mm/yyyy
Hi all,
I appreciate your help on the following: I have a list of dates that i recieved as excel file. the dates are formatted as month/day/year but the truth of the matter is that it is day/month/year...for example, one data point is shown as 12/8/2009, when i click to see its format it is Date format *3/14/2001 so excel thinks it is december 8 2009...now i want excel to know that the date is 12/8/2009 which is 12 august 2009...i tried text to column but the problem is that excel still thinks that the first number is the month but i want it to know that it is the day not the month....if i try to change the format to dd/mm/yyyy from custom date, still excel is confused so it switched both figures but it is wrong to start with!!! i tried to copy past the value and try to text to column with / being the separator, but then excel will give me the serial number of the date!! i very much appreciate your help and thanks in advance |
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