At 11:43 17/03/2014 +0000, Budgie Noname wrote:
In short I am having to "massage" a .csv file exported from one
system before importing it into an accounting system. The
accountant wants a "Comment" column added before importing the file
which summarises information held in four other columns. Two
columns contain names and do not present a problem but the other two
have dates. In the .csv file the dates are shown 02-Oct-14 and I am
having trouble getting these dates treated as text.
To get the names I have:-
=B2&" "&C2 but how do I copy the dates?
If you have real dates in the columns and you need to include them as
text in the additional column, just use TEXT(D2;"DD-MMM-YY") where
you would otherwise use D2 in your formula, and so on.
But if you mean that your original CSV file has these dates in this
format, there is an easier way. When you open the CSV file, you
should see the Text Import dialogue. Under Fields, click in the date
columns and then select Text from the drop-down menu against "Column
type". The dates will be imported as text and you will not need the
above workaround.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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