Hey Abhishek, In fact when I tried later, I found that your suggetion works. When I replaced . with / it automatically gave me the date format dd/mm/yyyy. And once I got that it is very easy to convert it in mm/dd/yy. Great ! Thanks
On Sep 30, 9:48 am, Abhishek Jain <abhishek....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kaustubh, > > Sorry I missed the mmddyyyy part of your query. By the way Paul's solution > is working great! Attached is a sample file. > > Brgrds > > > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Kaustubh K <kaustubh....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Abhishek, Thanks for your reply ! But there is one problem. Suppose > > I have date 5.6.08 ( June 5, 08). If I replace . by / then I ll get > > 5/6/08 date format is mmddyy and my date will change and it will be > > May 6,08. > > > On Sep 28, 3:02 pm, Abhishek Jain <abhishek....@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Easy and simple - > > > > Select your column and press Ctrl+H (replace) put *.* in find what and > > put * > > > /* in replace with...click replace all. > > > > you're done. > > > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Kaustubh K <kaustubh....@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I have around 500 entries which have format of date dd.mm.yy say > > > > 21.05.08 ( And the difficulty is that they are not in date format but > > > > text format) I wish to convert them to mm/dd/yyyy date format. Is > > > > there any trick to do so fast. > > > > > Regards > > > > Kaustubh- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > Date MMDDYYYY.xls > 18KViewDownload- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 6,500 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
