Dates in Excel

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In natural history, including museum records, it is commonplace to use a date
with lower case letters for the month, e.g. 19.x.2004 = 19th October 2004 or
01.iii.1999 = 1st March 1999. It would help users if this format were added
as a standard and could be converted.
 
For what it is worth...

If you add dates as text by preceeding the entry with a ' , for example,
'19/11/2004 and then apply the following formula

=LEFT(A8,2)&"."&LOWER((ROMAN(MONTH(A8)))&"."&RIGHT(A8,4))

you will get 19.xi.2004 as the output.

Does this help? Possibly I could modify this to accomodate any needs. But
there is no in-built function with Excel.

Regards

Alex
 
Without having to enter dates as text, this should work.

=DAY(A5)&" . "&LOWER(ROMAN(MONTH(A5)))&" . "&YEAR(A5)
 
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