Date Format Problems??

[Guest]

Date Format Problems??

Hi, I am a bit novice at some of this; any suggestions will help, (can
find/ using: format cells, number/custom.. cond. format..)

Date example that I was/ am using: Text: 051113, and "Right Justify" to
see just last 2 digits: 13 (for day)
I changed system date format in Control Panel, Regions, to be: yy-mm-dd
(did not really want dashes, trying for database type sorting of dates..?)
Don't know if I should pick a different format to do same thing.. to see:
yymmdd.

- Is there a work-around for seeing "text"? / last two characters of DATE?
When I format as a date, & narrow the column, & Right Justify (for space &
to see just the last 2 numbers), i get: ##
Trying to get ## to go away, and still be a date.


2nd problem: need Function for date older than 1 "Business" day. (for
Cond. Formatting), (note: for weekends-sat / sun, Friday is still today
is there a Date type Function to use?, Thanks, need something like:

IF( last "Business" DATE is one day old),true,false)

 

[Guest]

Looking at your first problem I assume that 051113 means:
day 13
month 11
year 2005
and that all you text/dates are 6 characters. In a separate cell enter:

=right(A1,2) if the text/date in in cell A1. You can justify it anyway you
like.

 

[Guest]

Thankyou.. will see if get some response on 2nd problem too, so won't click
yes.. but looks like that might do what I need for 1st, thanks

 

[Guest]

yes yymmdd, actually looks like not enough room to do, no space for more
columns, don't know if have suggestion for same cell.

 

[Guest]

I have only one other suggestion, but its kind of cheesy. If you have a
number in a cell, you can not format the individual digits with thier own
fonts. You can format the individual characters in text string separately.

You have to do this in the formula bar:

Select the cell with 051113 in it. In the formula bar, highlight 0511 and
pull-down:

Format > Cells... > Font and set the color to the same as the background
color. This will make the 0511 seem to disappear, leaving only the 13.

 

[Guest]

Would try anything that works, thanks for the idea. Think when I compress
the size / width of column, that will preclude that working..

Trying to figure out the date thing still, got this far. May have to repost
it if no answer here. Guesse I should only post 1 question at a time.

How do you backward / forward find date serial for 1900 system, to figure
equations (maybe just plug into a cell, see what it says: struggling with
that too.

Equation Looking for: How do I determine if date in a cell is 1 day old.

Something like: ?
=IF(DATE(DAY(A1)+1<DATE(TODAY(A1)),true,false) guessing something like this



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