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MS Office Forum / Excel / Worksheet Functions / May 2008Covert Number to date
I have a spreadsheet with 20071123 is in number format. I am trying to covert it so that excel will see those numbers as a date. It is not text but in number format. How do I change this to make it read 11/23/2007 =DATE(LEFT(H1,4),MID(H1,5,2),RIGHT(H1,2))  SignatureHTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) >I have a spreadsheet with 20071123 is in number format. I am trying to > covert it so that excel will see those numbers as a date. It is not text > but > in number format. How do I change this to make it read 11/23/2007 Select the column with the "dates", do data>text to columns, click next twice, under column data format select Date and from dropdown select YMD and click finish SignatureRegards, Peo Sjoblom >I have a spreadsheet with 20071123 is in number format. I am trying to > covert it so that excel will see those numbers as a date. It is not text > but > in number format. How do I change this to make it read 11/23/2007 Try this: Select the cell in question Goto the menu Data>Text to columns Click Next twice In Step 3 of the wizard under Column data format... Select Date>YMD Click Finish SignatureBiff Microsoft Excel MVP >I have a spreadsheet with 20071123 is in number format. I am trying to > covert it so that excel will see those numbers as a date. It is not text > but > in number format. How do I change this to make it read 11/23/2007 If you want to go the formula route as Bob suggested, here is a slightly shorter alternative for you to consider... =--TEXT(H1,"0000-00-00") Rick >I have a spreadsheet with 20071123 is in number format. I am trying to > covert it so that excel will see those numbers as a date. It is not text > but > in number format. How do I change this to make it read 11/23/2007 This worked perfectly!!! > If you want to go the formula route as Bob suggested, here is a slightly > shorter alternative for you to consider... [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > but > > in number format. How do I change this to make it read 11/23/2007 |
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