Mass Converting Values To Dates
Sep 8, 2009
I am working on combining several Excel spreadsheets and a report from a different program into one master Excel report. I have a macro built so the report can be compiled efficiently every quarter. However, I have one obstacle to overcome before I reach report programming bliss: The other program's report does not use a date format that Excel can interpret as a date. Excel interprets it as a value.
Specifically, the other program outputs September 3, 2009 as 9032009. It is crucial that the report be arranged in chronological order (time is a separate field). Does anybody know if there is a way to mass convert a bunch of values that look like 9032009 into 9-03-2009?
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Jul 9, 2012
I have looked at some threads related to this issue but don't quite fit what I am on about. I access some data online that appears in a grid format which I copy and paste to Excel. I don't have access to the source data/database. I select and set some query variables and run the query and the result appears in the grid. I copy and paste to Excel that is it. When paste to Excel 2010 I have the choice between "Keep source formatting" and "Match destination formatting". OK, I always choose the 2nd option i.e. "Match destination formatting". That is it. It appears to be a simpler format. Where does the problem come in? Can you help me stop Excel from involuntarily converting numerics to dates when not asked?
The data itself can (at least the part that I'm interested in can) come in 2 different ways. 1) WPS or 2) W%P%S. In case you're interested these represent racing statistics where 1) WPS = Number of Wins, Places, Starts given as whole integer format and 2) W%P%S = Percentage of Wins, Percentage of Places and S is still the integer number of starts. Now, when I run the query and copy these statistics over to Excel, particularly in the form of the 1st type of data i.e. WPS they are in the form e.g. "2-6-12" which means 2 wins, 6 places from 12 starts. The stats literally come across in the form "W-P-S" where I fear the delimiter "-" is causing the date conversion consequences that I have outlined at the start. ALSO, as you could have imagined, I have tried importing the data in terms of the 2nd type of data namely "W%-P%-S", which, on the surface of things begins to solve the problem in terms of the initial paste of the data into Excel. That is true, and yes I have found that this has delimited the data correctly mainly. Although there are still occasional problems. When I import the data this way, I still want the data in the % form as well as the integer form. So I do a great deal of data massaging with what I have and yet in re-converting some of the data back to integer form I can still encounter the "convert to date" problem.
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May 13, 2013
I have a workbook with lots of analytic data from my company which I want to share with other people not associated with the company. Obviously I can't share private data so I'm wondering if theres a quick way to modify all the data I have with 'fake numbers' which means I could share it. With fake numbers no privacy rules will be breached etc.
Is there a quick way to randomly change all numbers by +/- 10-20%?
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Jun 15, 2014
Today() provides a dynamic date which always equals the current date - not very useful when dating accounting documents. Is there a function that will allow the use of Today(), at the time of the document creation, but will then freeze the date to the date of creation?
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Feb 19, 2008
I have a long column of dates YYYYmmdd and I need to be able to convert them to mm/dd/yy so that I can see (for example) 09/18/72 instead of 19720918
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Sep 15, 2009
I need to convert the following string into Excel dates:
Jan 1, 2009
Jan 12, 2009
Jan 21, 2009
Right clicking it and changing it to date format will not work.
I have tried extracting individual days/months/years out by using Left/MID and Right functions but as you can see, problem lies when there days with single digit or double digits.
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Aug 20, 2014
Backstory: I am converting PDF documents to Excel files and some of the numbers are being transformed into a wonky date format which to the ***** eye looks semi correct but the underlying value in the formula bar is incorrect. Basically I need to copy and paste the value but when I paste special values it doesnt work. Below is the example
The cell value should be: 9856 When it is converted to excel the value shows 98 5 6 but in the formula bar it shows: 5/6/2098 The cell is formated as: Custom yy m d;@
If I get the value in the cell to read 98 5 6 I can use trim or something to get it down to 9856 but the issue is when I use those functions they return 72446. I guessing this is because they read the formula value not the cell value.
I need to somehow get the value in the formula bar to read 9856.
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Jun 27, 2013
Is there a way to convert data that has dates to week by week? such was week 1 week 2 week 3 etc....
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Jan 12, 2006
I have dates being imported (AS TEXT) to excel in various formats and want them all to appear in their cells in the same 8 digit format (MMDDYYYY) so it can be exported to another program
for example:
Single Digit Month and Day
cell A1: 3179 (convert to 03011979)
cell A2: 30179 (convert to 03011979)
cell A3: 030179 (convert to 03011979)
cell A4: 311979 (convert to 03011979)
cell A5: 3011979 (convert to 03011979)
cell A6: 03011979 (already correct)
Single Digit Month and Double Digit Day
cell A7: 52165 (convert to 05211965)
cell A8: 052165 (convert to 05211965)
cell A9: 5211965 (convert to 05211965)
cell A10: 05211965 (already correct)
Double Digit Month and Single Digit Day
cell A11: 12523 (convert to 12051923)
cell A12: 120523 (convert to 12051923)
cell A13: 1251923 (convert to 12051923)
cell A14: 12051923 (already correct)
Double Digit Month and Double Digit Day
cell A15: 112180 (convert to 11211980)
cell A16: 11211980 (already correct)
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Jul 20, 2006
I require a worksheet function or group of function that will allow me to
convert my dates of format dd/mm/yyyy to Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4.
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Jul 15, 2008
converting text strings to dates.
The dates I have imported into a spreadsheet are of the format:
11.05.08
I use code to convert it to this format
11/5/08
But with some of the dates, I get
11/5/2008 whereas with others, I get
11/5/08
However, if I recorded a macro the date format appears as
11/5/2008 for all the dates.
But the code is excatly the same, if I
see below:
My
For Each celld In Range([e1], [a1].End(xlToRight))
If celld.Value Like "*DATE" Then
celld.EntireColumn.Select
On Error Resume Next
Also, how do you convert strings to dates using VBA?
I thought DATEVALUE performed this function but keep getting errors when i try using it.
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Feb 13, 2007
I'm a moderate user of excel with some experience but need help creating a specific if statment.
I have a column "A" that shows dates formated like this: 060115 (January 15, 2006). Because excel does not recognize this as a valid numerical date I need column B to show what year the date falls under. To complicate it I need it to reflect a seasonal year from April 1 YYYY, to March 31, YYYY.
So here's an example. Say I have a date in column "A" of 050612 (June 12 2005). I need column "B" to look at that date and determine if it's >040105 and <033106 and return a result of "2005". I then need the formula to calculate an answer for up to 5 years worth of returns.
how to set up this type of =IF statement?
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Oct 4, 2007
I have hit an issue when tranfering a string date from VBA to excel, excel thinks the string is US format and swaps around the days and months even though the system and excel are setup for UK date format:
Simple example of the problem:
Sub test()
Dim testy As String
testy = Now
'testy will equal 04/10/2007 17:20
Range("A1").Value = testy
'A1 will equal 10/04/2007 17:20
End Sub
Now I know in this example that if I used DateValue(testy) it would work, but our situation is a bit more complex as we are running this is a loop testy is not always a date.
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Jan 4, 2014
I need to convert numeric data to proper dates. Example: a cell currently reads 100875 but I need it to display 10/08/1975.
I've already found a VBA script that properly formats new data as you enter it (keying 1298 results in 1/2/1998), and I'm familiar with using =DATE(left,mid,right) to coerce Excel into spitting out a date in a certain format.
The difficulty I'm having is that I need to make existing data display correctly, without adding another column to accommodate reinterpretation of said existing data through a formula. Essentially I'm looking to avoid having to re-key several thousand date entries.
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May 8, 2012
i'd like a formula to change a date to month and year
Column E
11 May 201123 November 201108 July 201103 September 201111 March 201224 December 2011
I've used =Text(e1,"MMM") to pull the month through but would like to include the year too.
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Jan 27, 2007
I get sent a spreadsheet by one of our partners where the dates look like they are in European date format except thay are actually in American format.
example
01/09/2007 - they mean 9th January 2007 but Excel holds 39326 which is 1st Sept 2007.
I can obviously format them but when I sort the list Excel still reads 1st Sept instead of 9th Jan
There are over a thousand entries so re-typing isn't an option.
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Jan 14, 2010
I'm having a little problem working with some CSV files that are sent to us by an outside party. There is a field for an invoice number. This number should be a string since it sometimes has alpha characters and sometimes has dashes. But the field is not delimited to indicate this, so when opening these files in Excel, Excel will sometimes convert the numbers to dates. Once they are converted to dates, there is no going back.
The way we have gotten around this is to change the csv extension to txt, then open as a txt file and convert that particular column to a text column. This causes a lot of additional work as the file ultimately needs to be converted back to a CSV.
Ideally, the people creating the CSV files should create them so the invoices column is properly delimited. But that doesn't seem to be possible right now.
Is there a way to create a macro that would make the modification while opening the CSV file, before Excel has a chance to modify those fields?
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Jan 11, 2009
http://www.excelforum.com/excel-gene...cognition.html
and im copying and pasting data from a website ( football scores )
and when i get what should be 1-1 it returns 01-jan and this i dont want
i have tried formatting all cells to text beforehand but that makes no difference and i cant put an apostrophe before each one as that would take ages
wondered if anyone could work out some syntax to use as a macro button?
claymation had a go but it doesnt work.
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Oct 21, 2013
I have a list of dates and want to convert them to something like Monday 21st October instead of 21/10/13.
I am sure this is easy but cannot see how to do it. I am on Excel 13.
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Dec 9, 2013
I have attached an excel sheet for your reference. I have particular debit values that are to be added between the dates. And Dates are also derived by formula based of payment term.
The ones I need to modify is Highlighted in Yellow. The values to be added is in "Customer Statement" and in H Column
These dates also have formula by which there are derived
-------------------------Current Ageing-------------------------
Date Range
Bucket
Amount
Percent
Start Date
End Date[code].....
I am USing =SUMIFS('Customer Statement'!$A:$A,'Customer Statement'!$H:$H,"=" & E11) but does not work.
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Jan 9, 2014
I have some values (I don't know the original format) that I have to convert into a numbers but I can't to that. I tried with value function, but #VALUE! error appear.
I tried with format cells but everything I do is useless. I tried to eliminate €, but the problems remain.
This is the excel file. [URL] ..........
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Apr 23, 2007
i am having a problem here,i Have got two columns one for item name other for item quantity.the quantity field has data like:
2+2+8
5+5
2+9
5
666+98
258
6+89+7+4+2+4+5
.....etc.
i need to calculate the total of all the cells like the first has sum 12,second has 10 ,fourth has 5 .Now i can get the sum by simply putting a " = "
in the start of the cell but the problem is that ive got 8000+ cells putting = manually will kill me.
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Apr 28, 2006
I have a macro that takes a value of one cell ("Cells(iFoundPass, 5")) and makes another cell (Admin_Level) equal it (the valules can be wither 'Administartor' or 'Standard'). When someone runs a macro it checks to see if "Admin_Level" equals "Administrator". The problem is that when that first macro runs, even if ("Cells(iFoundPass, 5")= "Administartor" and then "Admin_Level" will be made "Administrator" , my IF/THEN statements do not work. I think this is because the value of "Admin_Level"("Administrator" in the example above) is not text. I can't seem to figure out why. I do know, though, if I manually enter in 'Administrator' in the cell name "Admin_Level" then my IF/THEN works.
Sheets("Config").Range("Admin_Level") = Sheets("Config").Cells(iFoundPass, 5)
and then this is the logical check that runs anytime someone wants to run a macro...
If wb.Worksheets("Config").Range("Admin_Level") <> "Administrator" Then
PasswordForm.Show
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Mar 7, 2007
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Apart from the fact that it might be tricky enough to produce the code , by my calculations there will be 10 to the power of 6 possibilities and as far as I know there are only 65000 rows in my version of Excel. If they had to be put into 2 or 3 columns I would not mind
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Sep 2, 2007
I have the below spreadsheet and require to format it depending on what appears in column AE and column N.
example if in AE it says AAA and the figure in column N is >=-1 and Microsoft Excel - Belgium - Jupiler League.xls___Running: 11.0 : OS = Windows XP (F)ile (E)dit (V)iew (I)nsert (O)ptions (T)ools (D)ata (W)indow (H)elp (A)boutAB3AC3AD3AE3AB4AC4AD4AE4AB5AC5AD5AE5AB6AC6AD6AE6AB7AC7AD7AE7AB8AC8AD8AE8=
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZAAABACADAE2DateHomeAwayFTHGFTAGFTRHTHGHTAGHTRHDA51GoalsHDA17GoalsHDA7GoalsWHHWHDWHA51177*303/08/2007MechelenAnderlecht01A00DA-1.02A-2.18A-1.715.53.51.534.54.54.5AAA404/08/2007CharleroiRoeselare11D10H*****H2.00H3.291.623.45-1-1-1HH504/08/2007Club*BruggeBergen21H11DH2.65H2.47H2.001.3647.50.360.360.36HHH604/08/2007DenderGerminal12A00D***************2.883.22.2-1-1-1*
704/08/2007FC*BrusselsWesterlo01A00DA0.76D0.94H1.712.23.22.881.2-1-1ADH804/08/2007GenkCercle*Brugge31H31HH2.31H2.24D1.001.3348.50.330.33-1HHD2007-2008*
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Mar 24, 2008
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Feb 6, 2014
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I'm very new to macros, but I think(?) I know enough that a data source with 2,000 rows and 30 columns shouldn't take 20 minutes to complete the macro calculations. All of the columns (copy and paste) in the code are pure data. The only exception is the column labeled "AI". Is there are shortcut, other than creating new columns in the source data sheet and pasting these results as values? I put the specific pieces of code that I'm referencing in bold.
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Dec 24, 2008
I need to transfer a large amount data (~2,5 million lines of data) from one spreadsheet to another while making sure the destination file is kept in a certain format.
Spreadsheet "oxno" is the file that needs filling out with data provided to me in spreadsheet "ox"
The value that is the matching criteria will be the ITS account number (Field B in "ox" and field A in "oxno") and the currency (Field B in "oxno" and field G in "ox")
So I want a macro to look in "oxno" and use field the values of field "a" & "b" and search for the them in "ox" in fields "B" & "G". Once it finds a match it should copy the value of field "I" in "ox" and paste into field "n" on "oxno".
The next data to be copied should be what goes into field "O" in "oxno" this data is derived from field "L" or "M" but only when its of numerical value with one non numerical field in it (usually a "/"). Last value that I need copied over is Field "T" on "oxno" this is derived from field "J" or "M".
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After finishing writing this up, I realise how wordy this has become appologies for that, but hopefully someone will be able to understand what I am looking to achieve and will be able to suggest a solution.
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