ChathurawinD
Reputation: 784
Convert date column
I have data in an excel sheet. There I have a column with date values like this.
13 May 2012
27 August 2012
21 June 2012
18 March 2012
16 November 2011
15 December 2011
Is there a way to convert it to a format like this? 1998-12-25
Upvotes: 0
Views: 29
Answers (1)
sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio
Reputation: 15611
I am assuming your dates are stored as strings. If one of your data is in cell A1, use in B1
=DATEVALUE(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)&" "&LEFT(MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,FIND(" ",RIGHT(A1,LEN(A1)-FIND(" ",A1)))-1),3)&" "&RIGHT(A1,4))
Then format B1 as Custom, Type: yyyy-mm-dd.
Shorter formulas are possible, in particular if you can assume that the day will always have two digits (e.g., 01, and never 1).
If your data are stored as numeric instead of string, then simply apply the formatting procedure described.
Upvotes: 1