Date Fields

[Metalteck]

I have a spreadsheet that has 4 columns.
H=Month, ex 4
J=Day , ex 1
K=Year, ex 5
L=Century, ex 20

How can I gather all of these fields so that it can look like 4/1/2005 and
dragged down to 400 times?

[JE McGimpsey]

One way:

=DATE(L1*100+K1,H1,J1)


In article <[email protected]>,
Metalteck <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a spreadsheet that has 4 columns.
> H=Month, ex 4
> J=Day , ex 1
> K=Year, ex 5
> L=Century, ex 20
>
> How can I gather all of these fields so that it can look like 4/1/2005 and
> dragged down to 400 times?

[Nick Hodge]

Try in a spare cell

=DATEVALUE(H1&"/"&I1&"/"&J1)

And copy down. If the dates are all after 1930 and you haven't changed the
default, you shouldn't need the century

You will need to format the resulting number as a date

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
[email protected]HIS


"Metalteck" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have a spreadsheet that has 4 columns.
> H=Month, ex 4
> J=Day , ex 1
> K=Year, ex 5
> L=Century, ex 20
>
> How can I gather all of these fields so that it can look like 4/1/2005 and
> dragged down to 400 times?
>