Am 13.04.2015 um 08:58 schrieb bhaumikdave: > > Hi, I got a simple solution to this. My date format in excel sheet was like > 12-04-2015. > > Excel was not recognizing it as date or Formatting cell to Date was helping > me. > > So I selected and Copied entire column of date to New Blank Word document. > > Then I Again copied the date column from word document and came back to my > original excel sheet. > > Then right click and press Pest Special -->Paste as TEXT. > > Done. Now Excel will recognize it as date and will allow you to format cells > any date format as you wish. > > >
What is particularly irritating about your oversimplified approach with WinWord and Excel is that it is not reproducible with LibreOffice. It may work with Calc and a plain text editor (or not, depending on the outlined details). -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted