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Merging Date Columns
I have two columns that I want to merge into one. The first column is
as month day column 21-Aug and the second column is a year column, ie 2003. Is there a way to merge the two together? I have tried the CONCATENATE and the merge functions without success. I am a fairly novice/infrequent user of Excel. Thanks. |
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Merging Date Columns
If you select any cell in the column containing entries like "21-Aug" and
look at the formula bar, you will probably find its a Date and already has a year attached to it... the current year. If it is possible that this column's year is not the correct one, you can do this to join its month and day with your other column's year value. Assuming your "first column" is A and your "second column" is B.... =DATE(B1,MONTH(A1),DAY(A1)) Rick wrote in message ... I have two columns that I want to merge into one. The first column is as month day column 21-Aug and the second column is a year column, ie 2003. Is there a way to merge the two together? I have tried the CONCATENATE and the merge functions without success. I am a fairly novice/infrequent user of Excel. Thanks. |
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Is your first column text? Or is it a date. If it is a date, then it already
has a year, and you could use the following formula: =DATE(B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)) If it is text, and only has 21-Aug entered, AND assuming that any dates are entered with a number, followed immediately by a - (dash), followed immediately by a 3 letter month abbreviation, you could use the following formula: =DATE(B2,TEXT(A2,"m"),LEFT(A2,FIND("-",A2)-1)) Hope this helps. -- John C " wrote: I have two columns that I want to merge into one. The first column is as month day column 21-Aug and the second column is a year column, ie 2003. Is there a way to merge the two together? I have tried the CONCATENATE and the merge functions without success. I am a fairly novice/infrequent user of Excel. Thanks. |
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=DATE(B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2))
That is the same formula (except for the row) that I posted. I just tested it when the "21-Aug" is Text and the formula still worked correctly (apparently Excel converts it to a date due to its being called by a function requiring a date argument)... so your second formula appears not to be needed... it looks like this one formula works in both cases. Rick "John C" <johnc@stateofdenial wrote in message ... Is your first column text? Or is it a date. If it is a date, then it already has a year, and you could use the following formula: =DATE(B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)) If it is text, and only has 21-Aug entered, AND assuming that any dates are entered with a number, followed immediately by a - (dash), followed immediately by a 3 letter month abbreviation, you could use the following formula: =DATE(B2,TEXT(A2,"m"),LEFT(A2,FIND("-",A2)-1)) Hope this helps. -- John C " wrote: I have two columns that I want to merge into one. The first column is as month day column 21-Aug and the second column is a year column, ie 2003. Is there a way to merge the two together? I have tried the CONCATENATE and the merge functions without success. I am a fairly novice/infrequent user of Excel. Thanks. |
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It depends to some extent whether you've got text in your cells, or dates
formatted in a particular way. If your 21-Aug is text, you could try =A2&"-"&B2 if you want output as text, or =--(A20&"-"&B20) and format as a date if you want Excel to treat it as a date. If column A contains a date from which you aren't displaying the year, and you want to ignore the undisplayed year and replace it by 2003 from column B, try =DATE(B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)). -- David Biddulph wrote in message ... I have two columns that I want to merge into one. The first column is as month day column 21-Aug and the second column is a year column, ie 2003. Is there a way to merge the two together? I have tried the CONCATENATE and the merge functions without success. I am a fairly novice/infrequent user of Excel. Thanks. |
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On Aug 21, 10:09*am, "Rick Rothstein \(MVP - VB\)"
wrote: =DATE(B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)) That is the same formula (except for the row) that I posted. I just tested it when the "21-Aug" is Text and the formula still worked correctly (apparently Excel converts it to a date due to its being called by a function requiring a date argument)... so your second formula appears not to be needed... it looks like this one formula works in both cases. Rick "John C" <johnc@stateofdenial wrote in message ... Is your first column text? Or is it a date. If it is a date, then it already has a year, and you could use the following formula: =DATE(B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)) If it is text, and only has 21-Aug entered, AND assuming that any dates are entered with a number, followed immediately by a - (dash), followed immediately by a 3 letter month abbreviation, you could use the following formula: =DATE(B2,TEXT(A2,"m"),LEFT(A2,FIND("-",A2)-1)) Hope this helps. -- John C " wrote: I have two columns that I want to merge into one. *The first column is as month day column 21-Aug and the second column is a year column, ie 2003. * Is there a way to merge the two together? *I have tried the CONCATENATE and the merge functions without success. *I am a fairly novice/infrequent user of Excel. Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You guys are awesome, thanks for all of the help. It worked like a charm! |
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On Aug 21, 9:57*am, John C <johnc@stateofdenial wrote:
Is your first column text? Or is it a date. If it is a date, then it already has a year, and you could use the following formula: =DATE(B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)) If it is text, and only has 21-Aug entered, AND assuming that any dates are entered with a number, followed immediately by a - (dash), followed immediately by a 3 letter month abbreviation, you could use the following formula: =DATE(B2,TEXT(A2,"m"),LEFT(A2,FIND("-",A2)-1)) Hope this helps. -- John C " wrote: I have two columns that I want to merge into one. *The first column is as month day column 21-Aug and the second column is a year column, ie 2003. * Is there a way to merge the two together? *I have tried the CONCATENATE and the merge functions without success. *I am a fairly novice/infrequent user of Excel. Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks, you guys are great! |
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On Aug 21, 10:20*am, "David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk
wrote: It depends to some extent whether you've got text in your cells, or dates formatted in a particular way. If your 21-Aug is text, you could try =A2&"-"&B2 if you want output as text, or =--(A20&"-"&B20) and format as a date if you want Excel to treat it as a date. If column A contains a date from which you aren't displaying the year, and you want to ignore the undisplayed year and replace it by 2003 from column B, try =DATE(B2,MONTH(A2),DAY(A2)). -- David Biddulph wrote in message ... I have two columns that I want to merge into one. *The first column is as month day column 21-Aug and the second column is a year column, ie 2003. * Is there a way to merge the two together? *I have tried the CONCATENATE and the merge functions without success. *I am a fairly novice/infrequent user of Excel. Thanks.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Thanks for the help! You guys are great! |
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