At 06:26 17/07/2017 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
This spread sheet has several columns of dates written MM/DD/YYYY. I
need to reverse it to YYYY/MM/DD. This is what I came up with:
=MID(A17,FIND("/",A17)+4,1024)&"/"&IF(LEN(LEFT(A14,FIND("/",A14)-1))=1,LEFT(A14,FIND("/",A14)-2)&"0"&LEFT(A14,FIND("/",A14)-1))&"/"&MID(A17,FIND("/",A17)+1,2)
I'm guessing that you mean that this is for dates written as text,
not proper spreadsheet dates as internal numbers formatted to show as
you describe. I'd consider doing this a different way.
o Select the relevant column.
o Go to Data | Text to Columns... .
o Under Fields, click the column header.
o For Column type, select "Date (MDY)" (yes: really!).
o OK.
Your dates are now in internal numeric format and can be formatted as
YYYY/MM/DD if you wish.
I created this using one column as my example not realizing the
other columns dates were created at a later date and formatted
differently. The column I used the format was Number general.
Another column is Number -//1234 with a format code of #"/"##"/"#### ...
The above technique should work with these values, too.
... and another of Date 12/31/1999 format.
Leave those as they are.
You now have two obvious choices: either
o Leave your values as normal spreadsheet dates and format the
relevant cells as YYYY/MM/DD to show as you wish, or
o Use a formula such as =TEXT(Xn;"YYYY/MM/DD") to derive an explicit
text version of your values.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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