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MS Office Forum / Excel / General Excel Questions / March 2008Excel dates not filtering in Word: Office 07
Hi folks, I have posted this problem in the Word group without success, and also in the Mr Excel bulletin board, also without finding a solution. I wonder if anyone here can help: I do regular mail merges in Word using data created in Excel. I am almost always wanting to filter by the date the record was entered into Excel, and which was recorded by typing ctrl ; to insert the current date. The problem is, when I am filtering the data in Word, and type in the date I want the records from, I get this error message: http://i30.tinypic.com/2uz40h4.jpg Word happily filters dates that I have typed into a table in Word then used as a data source. What do I need to do to have Word recognise my Excel dates? In case this is relevant, my regional settings are: http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z...screenshot.jpg Thanks in advance for advice, Jo Excel maintains dates as numbers. Excel's date range is from Jan. 1, 1900, day 1, to Dec. 31 9999, day 2,958,465. Word does not maintain dates as numbers. Word maintains dates as text. Excel simply formats the numbers to display as a human understandable date. Tyro > Hi folks, I have posted this problem in the Word group without > success, and also in the Mr Excel bulletin board, also without finding [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Jo > Excel maintains dates as numbers. Excel's date range is from Jan. 1, 1900, > day 1, to Dec. 31 9999, day 2,958,465. Word does not maintain dates as [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > > Jo Yes, I realise that. Is there any way to filter dates though? Your best bet would probably be to filter in Excel, rather than in Word. Another option is to use a helper column with =TEXT(A2,"m/dd/yyyy") -- David Biddulph > Yes, I realise that. Is there any way to filter dates though? >> Excel maintains dates as numbers. Excel's date range is from Jan. 1, >> 1900, [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] >> >> > Jo On Mar 16, 6:56 pm, "David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk> wrote: > Your best bet would probably be to filter in Excel, rather than in Word. > Another option is to use a helper column with =TEXT(A2,"m/dd/yyyy") [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > > >> > Jo Thanks. I have been filtering in Excel, creating a new worksheet with that data, then mail merging with that sheet. It is a bit annoying that it's necessary to find workarounds when dealing with products from the same developer though. Surely I am not the first person to have this requirement ... B A date filter should work in Word, for Excel data. What solutions were suggested in the other groups, that didn't work? Were you able to use the date filter in a previous version of Word? I can't see what your regional settings are, but from the Excel screen shot it looks like m/d/yyyy is your short date. You could try mm/dd/yyyy instead, to see if that helps. You might want to blur your clients' personal data in your screen shot though. They might not appreciate having it posted publicly. > Hi folks, I have posted this problem in the Word group without > success, and also in the Mr Excel bulletin board, also without finding [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Jo  SignatureDebra Dalgleish Contextures http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html > A date filter should work in Word, for Excel data. What solutions were > suggested in the other groups, that didn't work? [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > Debra Dalgleish > Contextureshttp://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html Hi Debra, thanks for replying. There were no suggestions made in the other groups at all, other than a work around similar to what I was already doing. When you say "You could try mm/dd/yyyy instead, to see if that helps." do you mean when filtering in word, or do you mean I should try setting my regional settings to this? B I meant that you could change the short date in the regional settings to mm/dd/yyyy, and see if that helps with the filter in Word. >>A date filter should work in Word, for Excel data. What solutions were >>suggested in the other groups, that didn't work? [quoted text clipped - 43 lines] > > B SignatureDebra Dalgleish Contextures http://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html > I meant that you could change the short date in the regional settings to > mm/dd/yyyy, and see if that helps with the filter in Word. [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] > Debra Dalgleish > Contextureshttp://www.contextures.com/tiptech.html In New Zealand we use dd/mm/yy so there would be no point trying mm/dd/ yy because it would totally confuse things. Do you think it's worth trying dd/mm/yy? B |
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