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Ensuring a cell is copied in text format
I have a macro that uses the following code to copy the value from
the named range "a" to the named range "b" in another workbook: a.Formula = a.Value2 a.Copy b The problem is that the "b" cell gets formatted as Date, even though it's preformatted as Text and the "a" cell also is formatted as Text. (The "a" cell contains text like 11/2004, so the value is interpreted as a date on arrival.) I need to ensure that the "b" cell is formatted as Text, and that it doesn't convert the original text to a "date number" like 38292. How can this be done?? |
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Hi
One way: b.Value = "'" & a.Text HTH. Best wishes Harald "Richard H" skrev i melding 9... I have a macro that uses the following code to copy the value from the named range "a" to the named range "b" in another workbook: a.Formula = a.Value2 a.Copy b The problem is that the "b" cell gets formatted as Date, even though it's preformatted as Text and the "a" cell also is formatted as Text. (The "a" cell contains text like 11/2004, so the value is interpreted as a date on arrival.) I need to ensure that the "b" cell is formatted as Text, and that it doesn't convert the original text to a "date number" like 38292. How can this be done?? |
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Worked beautifully! Takk skal du ha, Harald.
One minor problem, though: The "date" cell is formatted as text in the original workbook, and written like this: 12/2004 On import, the data is converted to a standard date format, like this: Dec.04. The code you supplied ensures that this is converted to text - 'Dec.04. I would preferably retain 12/2004, as originally entered. Is that possible?? Richard "Harald Staff" wrote in : Hi One way: b.Value = "'" & a.Text HTH. Best wishes Harald "Richard H" skrev i melding 9... I have a macro that uses the following code to copy the value from the named range "a" to the named range "b" in another workbook: a.Formula = a.Value2 a.Copy b The problem is that the "b" cell gets formatted as Date, even though it's preformatted as Text and the "a" cell also is formatted as Text. (The "a" cell contains text like 11/2004, so the value is interpreted as a date on arrival.) I need to ensure that the "b" cell is formatted as Text, and that it doesn't convert the original text to a "date number" like 38292. How can this be done?? |
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I'm not sure I understood this. When it comes to dates, the original entry
isn't there anymore. Excel converts it to a date immediately. But if mm/yyyy is what you need, and a contains a real date, then for text b.Value = "'" & Format$(a.Value, "mm/yyyy") or, if you want the date to follow b.Value = a.Value b.NumberFormat = "mm/yyyy" A cell can contain a date and display almost whatever. If it's a date then it shows a real date in the formula bar. If formula bar also says Dec 04 or 12/2004 then it's text, not a date. HTH. Best wishes Harald "Richard H" skrev i melding 1... Worked beautifully! Takk skal du ha, Harald. One minor problem, though: The "date" cell is formatted as text in the original workbook, and written like this: 12/2004 On import, the data is converted to a standard date format, like this: Dec.04. The code you supplied ensures that this is converted to text - 'Dec.04. I would preferably retain 12/2004, as originally entered. Is that possible?? Richard "Harald Staff" wrote in : Hi One way: b.Value = "'" & a.Text HTH. Best wishes Harald "Richard H" skrev i melding 9... I have a macro that uses the following code to copy the value from the named range "a" to the named range "b" in another workbook: a.Formula = a.Value2 a.Copy b The problem is that the "b" cell gets formatted as Date, even though it's preformatted as Text and the "a" cell also is formatted as Text. (The "a" cell contains text like 11/2004, so the value is interpreted as a date on arrival.) I need to ensure that the "b" cell is formatted as Text, and that it doesn't convert the original text to a "date number" like 38292. How can this be done?? |
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Harald,
you understood, alright. The only puzzling thing now is that the imported "date" is converted to '12.2004 even though your code b.Value = "'" & Format$(a.Value, "mm/yyyy") definitely tells Excel to return '12/2004. I can't figure that one out, but I can live comfortably with it. Thank you! Regards, Richard "Harald Staff" wrote in : I'm not sure I understood this. When it comes to dates, the original entry isn't there anymore. Excel converts it to a date immediately. But if mm/yyyy is what you need, and a contains a real date, then for text b.Value = "'" & Format$(a.Value, "mm/yyyy") or, if you want the date to follow b.Value = a.Value b.NumberFormat = "mm/yyyy" A cell can contain a date and display almost whatever. If it's a date then it shows a real date in the formula bar. If formula bar also says Dec 04 or 12/2004 then it's text, not a date. HTH. Best wishes Harald "Richard H" skrev i melding 1... Worked beautifully! Takk skal du ha, Harald. One minor problem, though: The "date" cell is formatted as text in the original workbook, and written like this: 12/2004 On import, the data is converted to a standard date format, like this: Dec.04. The code you supplied ensures that this is converted to text - 'Dec.04. I would preferably retain 12/2004, as originally entered. Is that possible?? Richard "Harald Staff" wrote in : Hi One way: b.Value = "'" & a.Text HTH. Best wishes Harald "Richard H" skrev i melding 9... I have a macro that uses the following code to copy the value from the named range "a" to the named range "b" in another workbook: a.Formula = a.Value2 a.Copy b The problem is that the "b" cell gets formatted as Date, even though it's preformatted as Text and the "a" cell also is formatted as Text. (The "a" cell contains text like 11/2004, so the value is interpreted as a date on arrival.) I need to ensure that the "b" cell is formatted as Text, and that it doesn't convert the original text to a "date number" like 38292. How can this be done?? |
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