I have an application that generates CSV info. It reports dates in the form "DD MM YYYY". For example "11 23 2021". This is a change in the application. It used to report dates as "11/23/2021" which was easy to import into my spreadsheet. it now imports as text and I cannot treat it as a date.
How can I either get Excel to treat it as a date or convert it to a date Excel can work with?
If the date is in cell A2, tryand format as date.Formula:
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You might even get away with a global replace of space by forward slash (can't test at the moment).
No formulas
Data-->Text to Columns-->Next-->Next-->Date-->DMY-->Finish
Getting close, I think, but that results in 3 separate cells, side by side. I want to change "11 23 2023" to "11/23/2023".
See post #2.
Or select the column > Find & Replace.
Find: " " (space without the quote marks - just hit the spacebar!
Replace: /
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Post #3, maybe?Originally Posted by AliGW
Completely missed that, Trevor - sorry!
Yes, I have been negligent.
I couldn't figure out why none of the suggestions were working out! I finally realized it was due to my mistake. The mistake is, I got confused about the actual format, which expresses the date as "Nov 21 2023" NOT "11 21 2023". The 11 21 2023 was from an experiment I was using while trying to work things out! Once I plugged the actual data into my REAL scenario, things no longer worked.
SO my REAL problem is converting the text "Nov 21 2023" to a date useable in an Excel formula! I have a string of dates that I want to average out. I know, it sounds like a dumb idea, but it works for me and has been working until my source changed its format. It has to do with making a plot of a data points over time and sometimes only having start and end times for some data points.
In "real life" I need to deal both with several-day spans and just a few-minute spans. In the long run, there are date+time timestamps being plotted (not just dates). I have other ways to deal with this, like taking min or max instead of average, or making multiple plots (both min and max) but for now a simple average suffices.
Sorry for my stumbling around!
Last edited by bertilak45; 11-01-2023 at 12:39 PM.
@Ali: no worries
See file with "Custom Format"
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