dating problems!

[Guest]

I recieve date information in text format...i.e. "01-JAN-2005", but would
like to convert it to an Excel format date.

I have seen it done before by using a function to split the text into parts
(getting excel to read the cell as DD-MMM-YYYY) and output the result using
DAY, MONTH, YEAR function. No idea how to do this though.

Thanks
J

 

[Jason Morin]

=A1*1

and format as date.

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

 

[Guest]

"01-JAN-2005"*1 returns #VALUE!

=A1*1

and format as date.

HTH
Jason
Atlanta, GA

 

[Bernie Deitrick]

Jose,

The formula Jason provided fails because you have double quotes around your
string values.

Simply select your date values, and use Edit / Replace and replace double
quotes with nothing. Excel will then convert the values to dates.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP