Date formatting mmddyyyy to mm/dd/yyyy

[techexpressinc]

I tried all the normal formatting, they failed. My data - date field look like this now:

8032005
2272007
11222007

I need it to be

08/03/2005
etc.

Thx Russ

 

[tweedle]

There's going to be multiple perspectives to accomplish this; here's one;


<TABLE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 2pt; PADDING-LEFT: 2pt; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Calibri,Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=1><COLGROUP><COL style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; WIDTH: 30px"><COL style="WIDTH: 71px"><COL style="WIDTH: 75px"></COLGROUP><TBODY><TR style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cacaca; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><TD> </TD><TD>A</TD><TD>B</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 18px"><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cacaca; TEXT-ALIGN: center">1</TD><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-ALIGN: right">8032005</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">08/03/2005</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 18px"><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cacaca; TEXT-ALIGN: center">2</TD><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-ALIGN: right">2272007</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">02/27/2007</TD></TR><TR style="HEIGHT: 18px"><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cacaca; TEXT-ALIGN: center">3</TD><TD style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-ALIGN: right">11222007</TD><TD style="TEXT-ALIGN: right">11/22/2007</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TABLE style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BORDER-LEFT-COLOR: #00ff00; BORDER-BOTTOM-COLOR: #00ff00; COLOR: #000000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: groove; BORDER-TOP-COLOR: #00ff00; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: groove; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: groove; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffcf9; BORDER-RIGHT-COLOR: #00ff00; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: groove"><TBODY><TR><TD>Spreadsheet Formulas</TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 border=1><TBODY><TR style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #cacaca"><TD>Cell</TD><TD>Formula</TD></TR><TR><TD>B1</TD><TD>=DATEVALUE(CONCATENATE(LEFT(TEXT(A1,"00000000"),2),"/",MID(A1,LEN(A1)-5,2),"/",RIGHT(A1,4)))</TD></TR><TR><TD>B2</TD><TD>=DATEVALUE(CONCATENATE(LEFT(TEXT(A2,"00000000"),2),"/",MID(A2,LEN(A2)-5,2),"/",RIGHT(A2,4)))</TD></TR><TR><TD>B3</TD><TD>=DATEVALUE(CONCATENATE(LEFT(TEXT(A3,"00000000"),2),"/",MID(A3,LEN(A3)-5,2),"/",RIGHT(A3,4)))</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>

 

[shg]

Try =--TEXT(A1, "00-00-0000") and format as you prefer.

 

[techexpressinc]

Re: Date formatting mmddyyyy to mm/dd/yyyy - reply

Very good. .
Thx
a million
Russ

 

[techexpressinc]

follow-up ftu

if the cell is empty - I need to skip doing the formula

=DATEVALUE(CONCATENATE(LEFT(TEXT(G2,"00000000"),2),"/",MID(G2,LEN(G2)-5,2),"/",RIGHT(G2,4)))

The worksheet had blanks for a batch of rows
then have date i.e. 1282010

I do not want a batch of #error - so I did this and it worked!

=IF(G2="","",DATEVALUE(CONCATENATE(LEFT(TEXT(G2,"00000000"),2),"/",MID(G2,LEN(G2)-5,2),"/",RIGHT(G2,4)))

Thx for the helping hand. Rus