On 2019-12-30 4:43 p.m., Alan B wrote:
James,
The only way I could get the text sample you provided to be accepted
as a date was to leave the day name off. Typing Wed, Jan 2, 2020 into
a cell resulted in a cell that contained text. Typing Jan 2, 2020 into
a cell resulted in a cell that contained a date in the default date
format, mm/dd/yy. That could then be formatted to NN, MMM D, YYYY and
display as Wed, Jan 2, 2020.
The DATEVALUE() function will convert the string Jan 2, 2020 to a
date. It returns Err:502 when pointed at the string Wed, Jan 2, 2020.
My suggestion would be to input the substring Jan 2, 2020 into the
DATEVALUE function then format as desired to get your dates back.
e.g. =DATEVALUE(MID(A1,6,20))
That works, thanks.
I have a spreadsheet with 2018 dates and I did a replace of '2018' for
'2019' to make a copy of the spreadsheet for 2019.
When I did the replace for 2020 dates it changed the cells to text.
I maybe had an option checked that I didn't before. :-(
On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 2:55 PM James <bjloc...@lockie.ca
<mailto:bjloc...@lockie.ca>> wrote:
I had a spreadsheet with dates that I think somehow got converted
to text.
I tried pasting it as plain text with detecting special numbers and I
tried setting the column to a date format but it still seems to
come out
as text.
'Wed, Jan 2, 2020'
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