Funcky Date Conversion to "Text"

gheyman

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I have an excel import template for a software program the company I work for uses. The Software import template uses an unusual date format

01/25/2018 would be 118
10/01/2017 would be 1017

I am trying to pull data from one of my spreadsheets to past into their template, but my spreadsheet uses the standard date formats. So I need to convert my dates to their format.

I cant seem to come up with a formula to convert my date fields into their format. my spreadsheet is using m/dd/yyyy

Their field on their excel import template is a "General" field.

anyone have a suggestion other than changing my spreadsheet date format. If I asked my users to start entering dates that the software uses, I would laughed at (LOL).
 

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Assuming that you just want month and year.
Formatting the cell would look like: myy
To use a formula to convert the value would be: =TEXT(A1,"myy")
 
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