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How do I change my date format from yyyy-mm-dd hhmm:ss to dd-mmm-yy|General Excel Questions & Answers|Excel Forum|My Online Training Hub

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How do I change my date format from yyyy-mm-dd hhmm:ss to dd-mmm-yy
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Grace Miller
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I would like to change my date format in order to calculate the days between 2 dates but it is just not working.

the standard date format is dd-mmm-yy but files exported from one of the systems put it in yyyy-mmm-dd.

please assist.

 

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Grace

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Hi Grace,

If you're referring to the Reported Date and Departure Date columns then these aren't even dates from Excel's perspective, they're text!

You have a couple of options for extracting the date:

1. If you want to add data to this table you can use this formula which can then be copied down for the remaining rows:

=DATE(LEFT(D8,2)+100,MONTH(DATEVALUE(LEFT(D8,9))),MID(D8,8,2))

2. If it's a one off task you can use Text to Columns to separate the date and time components into their own columns and then format the date correctly, choosing "YMD" in step 3 of the wizard.

Hope that helps.

Mynda

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Thank you sooooooooo very much......I knew you could solve this. GOOD JOB!!!!!!!!

Eternally grateful.....

 

Grace

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