see example:formating

[Richard Mahan]

I have an example where the date given is in one cell like 06/16/2006 and
Iwould like to display the date in three columns for sorting purposes. can
anyone tell me how to do this?

 

[Paul B]

Richard, with date in A1, =MONTH(A1) =DAY(A1) =YEAR(A1)

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[Larry S]

I see a couple of options, here is one solution

First, lets assuem the date you have is in column a, and my example will
assume A2 has the first date:

Use 3 unused columns and place the following formulas in these columns:

Col. 1: =month(A2)
Col. 2: =day(A2)
Col 3: =year(a2)

The other option is to use the Data/Text to Col command and specify the "/"
as the deliminter but this you will need to reformat the columns to numbers.

 

[Bob Phillips]

Why do you need to split to sort them, it will sort by date order as it is.

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[Richard Mahan]

I'm afraid you don't understand. this information is birthdates and it would
save me much time if I could sort this information by the month,day and
year, as I normally send cards out on birthdays if I sort this information
that is all in one column, it's not in the desired order.

 

[Richard Mahan]

I am having much difficulty gettings the results I want, mostly because I'm
not very savy with excel, I would prefer to use the text to columns option.
what I am trying to do is have the month, day and year displayed in three
columns if you could write the formula out for me, I would be much oblidged.
thanks

 

[Peo Sjoblom]

He already gave you the formulas

=YEAR(A2) will give you the years as in 2006 etc

the same for month and day

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[Gord Dibben]

Richard

If you want to use text to columns, there is no formula.

Just go to Data>Textr to columns>De-limited by / and hit Finish.

Format all 3 columns as General after you split.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Richard Mahan]

I would like to thank you for your input, It took me awhile but after some
persistence, I got it to work. I'm indebted to the Newsgroup.