Simple Question, display only part of a date in Number format

Hi

This might be a very simple question to most of you, but I am a novice
user.

If A1 has date in the format 04-Jan-06, then how do I have B1 display
only the first two characters "04" in number format, which means 4?

Cheers
Sunny

Hi
Just use =A1 in B1 and format B1 as dd

Andy.

"DB Explorer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> This might be a very simple question to most of you, but I am a novice
> user.
>
> If A1 has date in the format 04-Jan-06, then how do I have B1 display
> only the first two characters "04" in number format, which means 4?
>
> Cheers
> Sunny
>

Thanks Andy,

This works, and displays 04, but I am unable to use this for
mathematical functions, it needs to be a number format

Hi

THis is a bit cumbersome, but it works:
=VALUE(TEXT(A1,"dd"))

Andy.

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> Thanks Andy,
>
> This works, and displays 04, but I am unable to use this for
> mathematical functions, it needs to be a number format
>

Thanks Andy, this works perfectly, fine.

Sunny

Hi Sunny

Or you could simplify it to just =DAY(A1)

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Regards

Roger Govier


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> Thanks Andy, this works perfectly, fine.
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> Sunny
>

I knew there would be a smarter way!!

Andy.

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> Hi Sunny
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> Or you could simplify it to just =DAY(A1)
>
> --
> Regards
>
> Roger Govier
>
>
> "DB Explorer" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Thanks Andy, this works perfectly, fine.
>>
>> Sunny
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