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user3333321
user3333321

Reputation: 23

How to fix date format when converting a text file into excel?

I use amacro to convert txt files into xls but I have the problem that the fields with dates are not converting in the right format. For example I have the date 4/11/2014 (dd/mm/yyyy) and when the file is converted into xls, I have the date shown like this :11/4/2014.

How can I fix it?

code:

Public Sub Read_TXT()
Dim Dir_p As String, File_to_Open As String
Dir_p = ActiveWorkbook.path
File_to_Open = Dir(Dir_p & "\")
While File_to_Open <> ""
  If InStr(1, Right(File_to_Open, 3), "txt", vbTextCompare) <> 0 Then
    Workbooks.OpenText Filename:=Dir_p & "\" & File_to_Open, _
        Origin:=xlWindows, StartRow:=1, DataType:=xlDelimited, TextQualifier:= _
        xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=True, Semicolon:=False, _
        Comma:=False, Space:=False, Other:=False, _
        TrailingMinusNumbers:=True
    ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs Filename:=Dir_p & "\" & Left(File_to_Open, Len(File_to_Open) - 3) & "xlsx" _
        , FileFormat:=xlOpenXMLWorkbook, CreateBackup:=False
    ActiveWorkbook.Close
  End If
  File_to_Open = Dir
Wend
End Sub

Upvotes: 0

Views: 825

Answers (1)

SierraOscar
SierraOscar

Reputation: 17647

There's two methods that you can use here, the short way - which doesn't always work - or the long way, which will work, but will take a while to run.

The short way:

Columns("E, H, S, V, AB, AF, AJ, AL, AO, AS, AY, BE, BH").EntireColumn.NumberFormat = "dd/mm/yyyy"

The long way:

Dim bigRange As Range, rCell As Range

'// If your data has headers, change the 1 to a 2 in all the lines below.

Set bigRange = Union(Range("E1", Range("E" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("H1", Range("H" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("S1", Range("S" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("V1", Range("V" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("AB1", Range("AB" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("AF1", Range("AF" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("AJ1", Range("AJ" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("AL1", Range("AL" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("AO1", Range("AO" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("AS1", Range("AS" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("AY1", Range("AY" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("BE1", Range("BE" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)), _
    Range("BH1", Range("BH" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp)))

For Each rCell In bigRange.Cells
    With rCell
         .Value = Format(CDate(.Value2), "dd/mm/yyyy")
    End With
Next rCell

Upvotes: 1

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