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Hi All,

I am cetting an exchange rate table from an American Website. It uses the
american date format mm/dd/yyyy

As my PC is set-up to use the UK date format dd/mm/yyyy these dates are
stored as text when pasted to excel.

How would I convert these american dates to UK dates?

Thanks

Andi


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Hi
Use Data|Text to columns.
Select your column of dates, click on Data|Text to columns and on the third
page of the dialog there is an option to tell Excel that the text is a
date - and the format of it (mmddyy, etc)
Save a copy of your data before you start!

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Andy.


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Hi All,

I am cetting an exchange rate table from an American Website. It uses the
american date format mm/dd/yyyy

As my PC is set-up to use the UK date format dd/mm/yyyy these dates are
stored as text when pasted to excel.

How would I convert these american dates to UK dates?

Thanks

Andi




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Fantastic - Thanks Andy

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Hi
Use Data|Text to columns.
Select your column of dates, click on Data|Text to columns and on the third
page of the dialog there is an option to tell Excel that the text is a
date - and the format of it (mmddyy, etc)
Save a copy of your data before you start!

--
Andy.


"Andibevan" wrote in message
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Hi All,

I am cetting an exchange rate table from an American Website. It uses the
american date format mm/dd/yyyy

As my PC is set-up to use the UK date format dd/mm/yyyy these dates are
stored as text when pasted to excel.

How would I convert these american dates to UK dates?

Thanks

Andi





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Glad to help and thanks for the feedback!

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Fantastic - Thanks Andy

<Andy B wrote in message ...
Hi
Use Data|Text to columns.
Select your column of dates, click on Data|Text to columns and on the
third
page of the dialog there is an option to tell Excel that the text is a
date - and the format of it (mmddyy, etc)
Save a copy of your data before you start!

--
Andy.


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Hi All,

I am cetting an exchange rate table from an American Website. It uses
the
american date format mm/dd/yyyy

As my PC is set-up to use the UK date format dd/mm/yyyy these dates are
stored as text when pasted to excel.

How would I convert these american dates to UK dates?

Thanks

Andi







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