Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 8
Default Convert Date in Text to month and Year

I am trying to convert text to month and year. In the cell it displays as
07/09 i want it show Jul-2009 or 2009-Jul. When i use DATEVALUE or DATE it
adds current year and displays something like 02/15/2010. Any idea what i am
doing wrong..

thanks
  #2   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 434
Default Convert Date in Text to month and Year

hi, !

try to follow (and provide feed-back in) your previous post (???)

regards,
hector.


  #3   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 2,389
Default Convert Date in Text to month and Year

See your previous posts.

Regards,
Fred

"Excellency" wrote in message
...
I am trying to convert text to month and year. In the cell it displays as
07/09 i want it show Jul-2009 or 2009-Jul. When i use DATEVALUE or DATE it
adds current year and displays something like 02/15/2010. Any idea what i
am
doing wrong..

thanks


  #4   Report Post  
Posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 15,768
Default Convert Date in Text to month and Year

I may be over-complicating this, but that's what I do!!!

How to solve this depends on the possible year span of the dates.

If a date is 07/22 is that the date Jul 2022 or Jul 1922

Are the dates *always* in the year 2000 or greater?

--
Biff
Microsoft Excel MVP


"Excellency" wrote in message
...
I am trying to convert text to month and year. In the cell it displays as
07/09 i want it show Jul-2009 or 2009-Jul. When i use DATEVALUE or DATE it
adds current year and displays something like 02/15/2010. Any idea what i
am
doing wrong..

thanks



Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Convert Text to Date Month and Year Excellency Excel Discussion (Misc queries) 1 March 22nd 10 09:28 PM
convert date to text month april Excel Discussion (Misc queries) 2 March 3rd 10 06:18 PM
Convert Month, Week, Year to date Pete Hay Excel Worksheet Functions 3 February 2nd 10 12:43 AM
Tell me which "season" (Month/Day through Month/Day) a date(Month/Day/Year) falls in (any year)??? misscrf Excel Discussion (Misc queries) 1 December 14th 07 02:59 PM
How do I convert a month-date format to day number of the year? Larry Excel Worksheet Functions 2 January 11th 07 05:21 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 10:10 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright ©2004-2024 ExcelBanter.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about Microsoft Excel"