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In cell A2, I use the trim function to trim cell A1 containing a date eg
1202/09, the result in A2 is 39856. However, this 39856 is text and not date value. I therefore cannot convert it back to date after the trimming. Can someone please help? Many thanks... -- exalan |
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Just format the cell as date to display:
2/12/2009 -- Gary''s Student - gsnu200833 |
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On Feb 14, 7:17*am, exalan wrote:
In cell A2, I use the trim function to trim cell A1 containing a date eg 1202/09, the result in A2 is 39856. However, this 39856 is text and not date value. I therefore cannot convert it back to date after the trimming. Can someone please help? =value(trim(A1)) should do the trick. You still might need to explicitly format the cell as Date. (But it worked for me without that when I did that in a virgin cell.) |
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Try =--TRIM(A1) -- mdmackillop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mdmackillop's Profile: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/member.php?userid=113 View this thread: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/sh...ad.php?t=64437 |
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Million thanks to Gary"s Student, joeu2004 and mdmackilop for their prompt
response. I've got it! -- exalan "mdmackillop" wrote: Try =--TRIM(A1) -- mdmackillop ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mdmackillop's Profile: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/member.php?userid=113 View this thread: http://www.thecodecage.com/forumz/sh...ad.php?t=64437 |
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Hi,
I know your problem has been solved, but I do have two questions - 1. why are you entering dates 1202/09 (Excel will not treat these as dates) it should be 12/02/09 2. what is the purpose of using TRIM? It is designed to remove leading and trailing spaces plus any extra spaces in between words. If you have a date in A1 then TRIM really does nothing. 3. If on the other hand 12/02/09 is text then rather than use =--TRIM(A1) just use =--A1 and format the cell accordingly. -- If this helps, please click the Yes button Cheers, Shane Devenshire "exalan" wrote: In cell A2, I use the trim function to trim cell A1 containing a date eg 1202/09, the result in A2 is 39856. However, this 39856 is text and not date value. I therefore cannot convert it back to date after the trimming. Can someone please help? Many thanks... -- exalan |
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Hello Shana, responded yesterday but not sure why not yet posted, hence this
repeated reply below: Yes, I've simplified the question because I know the result is the same. My real case is: I've donwloaded some data from "Pro Alpha" ESR system and done the "text to column" and "trim" routines. The date columns after "trim" all become text and I need to make use of the dates to continue my data analysis. Anyway, your advice on no.3 is helpful to me. Thanks -- exalan "Shane Devenshire" wrote: Hi, I know your problem has been solved, but I do have two questions - 1. why are you entering dates 1202/09 (Excel will not treat these as dates) it should be 12/02/09 2. what is the purpose of using TRIM? It is designed to remove leading and trailing spaces plus any extra spaces in between words. If you have a date in A1 then TRIM really does nothing. 3. If on the other hand 12/02/09 is text then rather than use =--TRIM(A1) just use =--A1 and format the cell accordingly. -- If this helps, please click the Yes button Cheers, Shane Devenshire "exalan" wrote: In cell A2, I use the trim function to trim cell A1 containing a date eg 1202/09, the result in A2 is 39856. However, this 39856 is text and not date value. I therefore cannot convert it back to date after the trimming. Can someone please help? Many thanks... -- exalan |
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