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Text To Date Conversion
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I run Excel 2000 I download information from a mainframe into Excel. In cell F5 the data looks like this: 19.11.2007 This is formatted as text and is left aligned. When I try to reformat it to a date (19/11/2007) it does not change. I would like to have a formula in cell N5 that changes the original data to a datevalue. (eg: 19/11/2007) Thanks |
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Text To Date Conversion
If column F contains a lot of the "date" values, then you could:
Data|Text to columns Fixed width (but don't have any separator lines!) choose Date (dmy order) and finish up Then give the range the date format you like. You could even do this for a single cell, but I'd just retype it as a real date. John Calder wrote: Hi I run Excel 2000 I download information from a mainframe into Excel. In cell F5 the data looks like this: 19.11.2007 This is formatted as text and is left aligned. When I try to reformat it to a date (19/11/2007) it does not change. I would like to have a formula in cell N5 that changes the original data to a datevalue. (eg: 19/11/2007) Thanks -- Dave Peterson |
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Dave
Thanks for your prompt resonse. The data I download from the mainframe is usually about 500 lines so Ideally what I was after was a formula that would be copied down the length of the dtata. I ended up using the following: =IF(F5="","",VALUE(LEFT(F5,2)&"/"&MID(F5,4,2)&"/"&RIGHT(F5,4))) This seems so work OK. Thanks very much for all your help. "Dave Peterson" wrote: If column F contains a lot of the "date" values, then you could: Data|Text to columns Fixed width (but don't have any separator lines!) choose Date (dmy order) and finish up Then give the range the date format you like. You could even do this for a single cell, but I'd just retype it as a real date. John Calder wrote: Hi I run Excel 2000 I download information from a mainframe into Excel. In cell F5 the data looks like this: 19.11.2007 This is formatted as text and is left aligned. When I try to reformat it to a date (19/11/2007) it does not change. I would like to have a formula in cell N5 that changes the original data to a datevalue. (eg: 19/11/2007) Thanks -- Dave Peterson . |
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