Convert text to date format

Posted by Jules on February 15, 2002 6:34 AM

I have raw data which has been exported to a txt file. I open this in Excel (sort data into columns), and the column with the date shows as "Nov 9 2001" but it is text formatted. Is there anyway I can convert this to a date?

Jules

Posted by DrDrew on February 15, 2002 6:36 AM

Format, Cells. Numbers tab, select "Date" and which style you want.

Drew

Posted by Mark W. on February 15, 2002 6:56 AM

After selecting your date column values choose
the Data | Text to Columns... menu command.
Click on "Delimited" at Step 1 of 3 and press
the [ Next> ] button until you reach Step 3 of 3.
Click on the "Date" Column data format radio
button and choose "MDY" from its dropdown list.
Press [ Finish ]. Format your newly converted
date values as desired.

Posted by Mark W. on February 15, 2002 6:58 AM

Formatting doesn't change the data type (in this
case, text) of the internally stored value. Date
formatting has no effect on text values.

Posted by simone on February 15, 2002 9:11 AM

My solution is in the file http://geocities.com/simonegremmo/excel/excel97.xls.

Sorry, to be unable to give you a correct explain in english...