date time formatting

bagpeople

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Can anyone help me with formatting a peculier numeric string? I have data output from a serial device that includes the following date/time string in "yy/mm/dd/hh:mm:ss" ie: "01/04/11/12:22:51"
I can get excel to format all kinds of date/time combos via custom number formats. Doesn't seem to like this one.
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Hi
Assuming your data is in Column A
Run this down Column B
Format to suit

=LEFT(A1,8) & " " & RIGHT(A1,8)

Tom
 
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Thanks Tom! That takes care of my first stumbling block, seperating the date and time. Wouldn't be a big deal except I will be looking at thousands of them!
Is there a way I can either rearrange the date to a western standard or convince excel to show it as 2001-Aug-2?

Allan
This message was edited by bagpeople on 2002-04-16 16:51
 
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