Excel Reverses Dates When Opening CSVs?
Nov 25, 2013
I'm having a problem with importing CSV files into Excel. My CSVs contain dates formatted Canadian style, dd/mm/yyyy. However, when some users open these files, Excel interprets the date as mm/dd/yyyy. (So the text string "01/09/2013", which should mean Sep 1 2013, becomes Jan 9 2013. The string "16/09/13" isn't recognized by Excel as a date at all.)
The annoying thing is that only some users have this problem. I've checked their Region and Language settings in the Control Panel and they're correctly set to English (Canada). I've also gone over their Excel preferences and couldn't find anything that seemed different from mine (or anything related to date formats at all, really).
I can work around by using the Import From Text option in the Data menu, but the users involved aren't techies and they need to open CSVs fairly often, so I'd prefer to streamline the process.
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May 13, 2013
I used the "record macro" to record a simple sorting (high to low) of columns A-F based on values (0-3) in column A. Everything works when I initially institute the macro. However, when I change anything or add a new item at the end of the list, the order reverses and sorting goes from lowest to highest.?
Here is what ended up in the macro:
Code:
Sub SortColumnA()
' SortColumnA Macro
ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").Sort.SortFields.Clear
[Code]....
I noticed that it only includes a fixed value for the length of the list (row 90). Is there a way to have it increase when anything new is added?
As of now I plan on just making an arbitrary large index (~200 ish) to automatically grab anything new.
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I'm trying to make a simple chart, which maps the value of an investment fund over time. I wanted to use the new 'Table' feature within Excel 2010 to format and maintain the formulae within the Table, and the 'Header' for the table contains the date, which is not at regular intervals.
If I opt not to use the Table feature, I can create a line-chart with ease, and Excel recognises that the Dates are indeed dates and plots the graph correctly. The minute I convert over to a Table, the Date headers are no longer recognised as dates, and are instead plotted as if they were text, at regular intervals.
I've tried multiplying the Date Headers by 1 to force them back to true Dates, but this still does not work. I've also changed the setting on the horizontal axis to Date axis rather than automatic, but still no joy.
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Oct 21, 2011
I am in strange situation where I have a data with Invoice Dates. These dates are in Text. However, when I convert it into reall excel dates. For some reason the dates do not come right. convert my text dates into excel real dates. I did a lot of google search and apply these three methods but all of these gave me strange result I was not expecting. These are the methods I used and the result of each method.
Method 1 : Using Text to Column Wizard (Excel 2007)
I highlighted invoice column and went into text to column wizard. I clikced on Date button, and selected MDY format. Strangely enough, my result was day, month and year i.e. DMY which does not seem right.
Then I press Control ~ on this data as shown in second view.
Inv DateMDY09/22/1122/09/201108/31/1131/08/201108/31/1131/08/201108/31/1131/08/201108/31/1131/08/2011
control ~ (overview)
Inv DateMDY09/22/114080808/31/114078608/31/114078608/31/114078608/31/1140786
2nd Method - Using formula to convert text date to real dates When I used formula, I get the following result. As you can see, formula is converting text dates into different system dates than the first method.Further strange things is when I take these system dates i.e. 4283 and in 2007 excel format use "Short Date" the same system date gets converted into wrong year as shown in the second view.
Inv DateFormulaFormula Result09/22/11=DATE(MID(B2,7,2),MID(B2,1,2),MID(B2,4,2))428308/31/11=DATE(MID(B3,7,2),MID(B3,1,2),MID(B3,4,2))426108/31/11=DATE(MID(B4,7,2),MID(B4,1,2),MID(B4,4,2))426108/31/11=DATE(MID(B5,7,2),MID(B5,1,2),MID(B5,4,2))426108/31/11=DATE(MID(B6,7,2),MID(B6,1,2),MID(B6,4,2))426108/31/11=DATE(MID(B7,7,2),MID(B7,1,2),MID(B7,4,2))4261
2nd view - system dates are getting converted into 1911
Inv DateFormulaFormula Result09/22/11428322/09/191108/31/11426131/08/191108/31/11426131/08/191108/31/11426131/08/191108/31/11426131/08/191108/31/11426131/08/1911
Similarly, I tried other methods or copying blanks etch but none seems to convert text dates into real (system dates).
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So I have two dates:
Opening Date: 29/07/2014 13:27
Closing Date: 29/07/2014 14:42
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I need to subtract the dates and find the time taken from the opening and closing time.
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Aug 22, 2013
I have a database list, and run a bunch of formatting, inserting, formulas etc., to be able to have a Word Mail Merge be able to run against the data when finished. I'm automating the process and want to be able to open the Word document when the Excel piece is done, so the user doesn't have to navigate to the file manually.
Since Excel doesn't seem to automatically 'see' Word docs in the Open File dialog list, my Open File code below is getting an error of "File Format is Not Valid":
ChDir "O:UAIBDCustomer RelationsIDHome Office Indexing"
Workbooks.Open Filename:= _
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Nov 7, 2013
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Sub CombineTextFiles()
Dim FilesToOpen
Dim x As Integer
[Code]...
And it worked just fine for that purpose but how could I edit this?
how I could use VBA to make a table out of data that would be cool too.
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FILEID
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I have a cell using formula
IF(TRUNC(B1)=TRUNC(TODAY()),VLOOKUP(Sheet1!A2,Sheet2!A:D,4,FALSE),"novalue")
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My problem is next day when i open the excel the previous days value is getting erased as my if logic is returning false.
Is there any way to freeze my previous days value while opening the excel the next day
day 27 i have this value
drugcode27-01-201428-01-201429-01-2014
AA0011
day 28 when i open the excel it shows'
drugcode27-01-201428-01-201429-01-2014
AA001novalue1
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I can open the file in Notepad++ and find all '- and replace it with ' and it will work fine. But I have hundreds of files.
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[Code] .....
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PHP Code:
Dim WordApp As Word.ApplicationDim xlApp As Excel.Application
'Dim xlWB As Excel.WorkbookPrivate Sub CommandButton1_Click()Bios
= ActiveWorkbook.NameNewWBookName
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= ActiveDocumentlastrow = Range("A1").End(xlDown).RowS
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