Date functions - Extracting simply the year

[Bobthebuilder]

I have a date in the form mm/dd/yy

How do I simply extract just the year, so that when I create a pivot table, I dont get all unique entries which are behind the date. I tried formatting, but that doesn't work, the format is ignored and the source date is looked at!

Thanks

[Paul B]

You could add another column and use =year(A2) to get the year, then use this data in your pivot table

[MT_Shanachie]

On 2002-05-03 10:00, Bobthebuilder wrote:
I have a date in the form mm/dd/yy

How do I simply extract just the year, so that when I create a pivot table, I dont get all unique entries which are behind the date. I tried formatting, but that doesn't work, the format is ignored and the source date is looked at!

Thanks

Add a column with the YEAR formula. If your date is in A1, use =YEAR(A1).

Alternatively, you can create a pivot table using the unique dates and then use the group feature. Right click in the pivot table, choose Group and Outline then Group and select Years in the By box.

Hope that helps.

[Bobthebuilder]

I know that my question seamed pretty straight forward, however, I have tried your suggestion, and I'm getting 1905 instead of 2000.

Any ideas!??

[Tom Schreiner]

Your doing something wrong or your date is already 1905...
The Year function does indeed pull the year from a date...
Make sure it is a valid date and not text.
Tom