This is the second time I've experienced this. The first time was on a personal spreadsheet that I created to track my electric bill. Excel 2003.
This time, I'm at work (Excel 2000).
I have 10,000 lines of date in column A through L.
The data was dumped from an application at work.
The data dump had dates in the following format HH:MMAM or HH:MMPM. I used =left(A1,4) to obtain the hour and minutes; =right(A1,2) to obtain the AM or PM; and then I concatenated the two back together to include a space in between the two. (example - Went from 01:25PM to 01:25 PM).
I formated the time column into a time format (after concatenation and copy/paste value to remove concatenation. This changed it from TEXT to TIME.
PROBLEM - It still looks the same. I decided to format the entire column to a different time format display (switched from 1:30 PM to 13:30:00). NOTHING HAPPENED; however, when I hit F2 in each field, it corrects its display.
This is not limited to the TIME format. Whereever there is a formula. If I change the values that the formula uses, nothing updates until I hit F2 in the actual formula field.
Any ideas???
This time, I'm at work (Excel 2000).
I have 10,000 lines of date in column A through L.
The data was dumped from an application at work.
The data dump had dates in the following format HH:MMAM or HH:MMPM. I used =left(A1,4) to obtain the hour and minutes; =right(A1,2) to obtain the AM or PM; and then I concatenated the two back together to include a space in between the two. (example - Went from 01:25PM to 01:25 PM).
I formated the time column into a time format (after concatenation and copy/paste value to remove concatenation. This changed it from TEXT to TIME.
PROBLEM - It still looks the same. I decided to format the entire column to a different time format display (switched from 1:30 PM to 13:30:00). NOTHING HAPPENED; however, when I hit F2 in each field, it corrects its display.
This is not limited to the TIME format. Whereever there is a formula. If I change the values that the formula uses, nothing updates until I hit F2 in the actual formula field.
Any ideas???