I have an excel sheet which has lots of cells in a column with the date format as - day month date time year & I wish to convert that to dd/mm/yy. How can I do that, pls help.
eg - I need to convert "sat Jun 29 00:00:00 PST 1996" to "29/06/96". How can I. Any help is appreciated.
go to Data, text to columns, make sure Delimited is highlighted and press next. check the space box then next. highlight the fields you do not want an select, do not import the finish. this will remove the time stamp. you can them format your column by right clicking, format etc.
It took me a while to find a solution to an existing list of dates, (which is what I am assuming you are working with). In my case I had international date (dd/mm/yyyy) and wanted a U.S. view (mm/dd/yyyy).
Select the Column range you want to convert (must be continuous), then click on 'Data', click 'Next' twice (ignoring the Delimted vs Fixed Width Choice & the Delimiter character, then select DMY or MDY from the drop down list. In my case, since my OP system is U.S. but the spreadsheet came from overseas, I had to go with a DMY to 'clean up"
This works ok but for any date that is numbered 20 or higher it does not convert. For example 20/11/11 does not convert but 03/07/11 converts correctly to 07/03/11. Any ideas why or how to resolve?
I just had 20/11/11 in a cell and used text-to-column functionality and choose DMY format. For me it did convert to proper date. Are you sure you had the right DMY format in the drop down (as the date 20/11/11 is in Day /Month/year format
I have exactly the same problem I cant change the format of the date in a cell. I have 34000+ cells and I am not going to change each one manually by retyping in the date
Hi everyone, my problem is sort of the same as above, but slightly different.
I have data that says 08/01/09 21:43:40 (as in mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss) which is exactly what I want. Problem is, is that in the display bar, it converts the time to AM/PM so in the display bar it says 08/01/09 9:43:40 PM.
the display bar seems to be the 'computer' version, as in when I look on text to columns, delimited, it displays the data is AM/PM time with an AM PM column.
i thought if I copied and pasted the data it might retain the original displayed value (without the AM PM as I want it) but it always shows the AM PM.
HELP, I need to format it so I definately is in 24hr time.
first u go in format which u see in top menu. than go to cells or click calls button, than go to number n than u see the category details. than go to date n change your format. okok
I need to enter the date and time in the format 02/02/2009 23:59:59 in the excel sheet.But I am unable to do that.
Under the option Format cells -->Number Tab ----> I donot have the option to enter in this format.Please help me out here.
Hello All.. if you have a value on Excel column with for example 10/21/09 12:00:36am and you want to get only the Date. You can use the Text to Column functionality and fixed with. The value then will be separated into to columns thus gaving you A column to have 10/21/09 and B column 12:00:36am
My problem was with data entry, some dates apparently being accepted, some not.
I was trying to type in the date of a month in excel as mm/dd/yy some it would accept and put on the right side of the cell and others it would reject and put on the left side of the cell. Turns out that it was autoformatting the cells as dd/mm/yy and if the second value was greater than 12 it would automatically reject it as a date. Turns out this is because excel 2007 uses the information from the region settings part of control panel in Windows. Mine were set up as English (Canada). If you change the short date format here it will automatically be reflected in Excel, you may need to select another english option in my case English (United States) and select the appropriate short day format. Excel will now recognize the entry as mm/dd/yy. Once you are done your data entry and you can be sure your data is entered corretly (months are months and days are days) you can then choose format cells to make the data look the way you want independent of what the region settings are.
If you know you will be pasting data from another source that will be formatted different than your default region settings it will likely be worth changing region settings before pasting to ensure data integrity.
This fixed my annoying problem of entering 27/5 for May 27 and it not formatting the text at all or it automatically formatting it as mm/dd/yyyy. Now it puts this in 27/05/2010.
Tried all of the above (to create YYYY/MM/DD), and although the output on the screen changes, as soon as the file is saved the format reverts to DD/MM/YY.
It took me a while to find a solution to an existing list of dates, (which is what I am assuming you are working with). In my case I had international date (dd/mm/yyyy) and wanted a U.S. view (mm/dd/yyyy).
Select the Column range you want to convert (must be continuous), then click on 'Data', click 'Next' twice (ignoring the Delimted vs Fixed Width Choice & the Delimiter character, then select DMY or MDY from the drop down list. In my case, since my OP system is U.S. but the spreadsheet came from overseas, I had to go with a DMY to 'clean up"
for this just right click on the cell and select format cell option, in number tab go to custom, and at the place of type, write dd/mm/yy and press ok.
I just want to get the value in HH:MM format (Hours, not the time) to converted in DD:HH:MM format. Such as- 11:30hrs. as 00:11:30 (DD:HH:MM)...how can I do in in excell?? Pls. mail me at - tirthapratim.dutta@gmail.com
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