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Multiple dates format in same column

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    Red face Multiple dates format in same column

    Hi guys,

    i am facing a situation where i have multiple format of dates in a column. An example will be row 1-5 will be 15/1/11 and row 6-10 will be 1/15/11. however i am very sure that all these dates are supposed to be January.

    I would like to know if there are anyway to use VBA to format all these date to one standard format???


    Thanks and
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    Ryan Yu

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    Re: Multiple dates format in same column

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    Re: Multiple dates format in same column

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    Hi this method does convert some values correctly however it is unable to detect situation where the month is january and the dates is less than 12 such as 1st january to 12th january.


    is it possible for me to store a variable such as the month january stored as integer "1"

    and compare the field data example
    if the date is 1/15/2011 then the month is january if the date is 12/1/2011 it will rename to 1/12/2011?

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    Re: Multiple dates format in same column

    hi i got the solution wish to share with other

    curmonth = 7
    Range("A1").Select
    lastrow = ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Rows.Count
    For i = 2 To lastrow
    ActiveSheet.Cells(i, 5).Select
    ActiveSheet.Cells.NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy"

    'excelmonth is the date of the cell
    excelmonth = ActiveSheet.Cells(i, 5)

    'managed to capture the month
    extractmonth = Month(excelmonth)
    If extractmonth = curmonth Then
    ActiveSheet.Cells.NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy"
    Else

    'to extract the date and year of excelmonth
    extractdate = Day(excelmonth)
    extractyear = Year(excelmonth)

    'create a new date value
    Dim newdate As Date
    newdate = DateSerial(extractyear, extractdate, extractmonth)
    'write the new date back to cell
    ActiveSheet.Cells(i, 5).Value = newdate

    ActiveSheet.Cells.NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy"
    End If

    Next i
    End Sub

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