April 1
Why does Friday, April 1, 2005 in a date formated cell generate a wrong data
type error when using the WEEKDAY formula? |
Is it entered as a date, or as text?
"alaskanrogue (Marc George)" wrote: Why does Friday, April 1, 2005 in a date formated cell generate a wrong data type error when using the WEEKDAY formula? |
Probably because XL doesn't recognize it as a date. It
just interprets it as a text string. If you just enter: April 1, 2005 then XL will recognize it as a date. To convert your current text string to a legitimate date, use: =--MID(G1,FIND(" ",G1)+1,1024) and then format the date however you want. HTH Jason Atlanta, GA -----Original Message----- Why does Friday, April 1, 2005 in a date formated cell generate a wrong data type error when using the WEEKDAY formula? . |
Jason Morin wrote...
Probably because XL doesn't recognize it as a date. . . . .... Testing is good. =WEEKDAY("April 1, 2005") returns 6 on my system. What does it return on yours? However, =WEEKDAY("April 1, 2005"&CHAR(160)) returns #VALUE! even though the argument would *APPEAR* the same as the previous argument. So I think the safer bet is that the OP has stray nonbreaking spaces in the date string, in which case =WEEKDAY(SUBSTITUTE("April 1, 2005"&CHAR(160),CHAR(160)," ")) returns 6. |
He said "Friday, April 1, 2005". I don't know whether that means the cell
displays 'Friday' or not. If it does, then DateValue("Friday, April 1, 2005") gives an error. On 7 Apr 2005 12:32:42 -0700, "Harlan Grove" wrote: Jason Morin wrote... Probably because XL doesn't recognize it as a date. . . . ... Testing is good. =WEEKDAY("April 1, 2005") returns 6 on my system. What does it return on yours? However, =WEEKDAY("April 1, 2005"&CHAR(160)) returns #VALUE! even though the argument would *APPEAR* the same as the previous argument. So I think the safer bet is that the OP has stray nonbreaking spaces in the date string, in which case =WEEKDAY(SUBSTITUTE("April 1, 2005"&CHAR(160),CHAR(160)," ")) returns 6. |
Myrna Larson wrote...
He said "Friday, April 1, 2005". I don't know whether that means the cell displays 'Friday' or not. If it does, then DateValue("Friday, April 1, 2005") gives an error. .... I overreacted. Sorry, Jason. |
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