Hi

I am having problems subtracting dates. Ideally I would like to use
the NETWORKDAYS function but the problem I am having is that the file
is imported from Oracle and some of the dates include both the date and
actual time, for example, 02/01/06 14:20:44. There are 2 spaces between
the date and the time. I have tried a combination of the LEFT and LEN
functions to remove the time but because this is a text function, it
converts all the dates to text. You then need to convert them back to
numbers and apply a date format. I am hoping someone can come up with
a quick way of changing a date such as 14/06/06 15:23:24, to 14/06/06
so that this is the actual value that shows in the Formula Bar.

Thanks

Shirley Munro


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=INT(A1) will strip off teh time part of A1, keeping just date

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Hi

I am having problems subtracting dates. Ideally I would like to use
the NETWORKDAYS function but the problem I am having is that the file
is imported from Oracle and some of the dates include both the date and
actual time, for example, 02/01/06 14:20:44. There are 2 spaces between
the date and the time. I have tried a combination of the LEFT and LEN
functions to remove the time but because this is a text function, it
converts all the dates to text. You then need to convert them back to
numbers and apply a date format. I am hoping someone can come up with
a quick way of changing a date such as 14/06/06 15:23:24, to 14/06/06
so that this is the actual value that shows in the Formula Bar.

Thanks

Shirley Munro


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Hi Shirley

Try
=INT(A1)
assuming the data & time are held in cell A1
This will produce just the date.
Just in case you did also need to pick out the time, then
=MOD(A1,1)

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Hi

I am having problems subtracting dates. Ideally I would like to use
the NETWORKDAYS function but the problem I am having is that the file
is imported from Oracle and some of the dates include both the date
and
actual time, for example, 02/01/06 14:20:44. There are 2 spaces
between
the date and the time. I have tried a combination of the LEFT and LEN
functions to remove the time but because this is a text function, it
converts all the dates to text. You then need to convert them back to
numbers and apply a date format. I am hoping someone can come up with
a quick way of changing a date such as 14/06/06 15:23:24, to 14/06/06
so that this is the actual value that shows in the Formula Bar.

Thanks

Shirley Munro


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Thanks a lot guys. This just what I need

Shirley Munor


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