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Date Conversion
I've converted an old database into an Excel spreadsheet and have about 5
columns containing hundreds of rows of dates. The dates were converted to a "General" format. There are a mixture of 1 and 2 digit month and day formats. All the years are 4 digit. (332001, 9111999, etc.). How can I convert these numbers to a DATE format (mmddyyy)? |
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In order to give you a good answer, you need to let us know how to
resolve ambiguity in your data. Is 1232001 3 December 2001 or 23 January 2001? In article , "Jesse" wrote: I've converted an old database into an Excel spreadsheet and have about 5 columns containing hundreds of rows of dates. The dates were converted to a "General" format. There are a mixture of 1 and 2 digit month and day formats. All the years are 4 digit. (332001, 9111999, etc.). How can I convert these numbers to a DATE format (mmddyyy)? |
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Can you re-import your data, and this time tell Excel to format it as date,
indicating what the format is? That'd be by far the fastest and least error-prone approach "Jesse" wrote: I've converted an old database into an Excel spreadsheet and have about 5 columns containing hundreds of rows of dates. The dates were converted to a "General" format. There are a mixture of 1 and 2 digit month and day formats. All the years are 4 digit. (332001, 9111999, etc.). How can I convert these numbers to a DATE format (mmddyyy)? |
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