Converting MM/DD/YY dates to 5 Digit Serial Numbers

Josue Barocio

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I need to convert MM/DD/YY dates to their five digit serial number equivalents. The usual FORMAT | CELLS | NUMBER | GENERAL commands will not work. The dates convert just fine if I enter them manually.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 

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Josh

Were the dates imported from an external file? It may be possible that Excel is treating them as text. If this is the case, enter 1 in a cell, copy it, and paste special multiply. This will convcert the text to a number.

HTH

Richard
 
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Hi

As Richard said, they are probably Text. Copy a number 1 from any cell, select the dates the go to Edit>Paste special | multiply. Then format as General.

or just use:
=A1*1
where A1 holds the text date
 
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