Date Formatting/adding slashes

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teresa

Hello,

I have a spreadsheet with data from a datebase that list dates with no
slashes. How can I add slashes?

Current format -7132007
Desired format- 7/13/2007

Thanks
 
Hi,

With your date in A1 try this

=DATE(VALUE(RIGHT(A1,4)), VALUE(LEFT(A1,1)), VALUE(MID(A1,2,2)))

If you want to change from a formula back into a date then copy it
paste special
select values
OK

Mike
 
You can't just "add the slashes".

You must first get Excel to recognize as a date.

Assume 7132007 is in A2 enter in B2

=DATE(VALUE(RIGHT(A2,4)), VALUE(LEFT(A2,1)), VALUE(MID(A2,2,2)))

Returns July 13, 2007.

Format to m/dd/yyyy


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
 
Hi Teresa,

You can simplify the suggested approaches

=DATE(VALUE(RIGHT(A2,4)), VALUE(LEFT(A2,1)), VALUE(MID(A2,2,2)))

to the following:

=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4), LEFT(A1),MID(A1,2,2))

However, keep in mind that all these approaches have a problem - what does
this represent: 1112009 is this 11/1/2009 or 1/11/2009?

To make these approaches better is is preferable that the original dates are
entered 02012007 which would be 2/1/2007. If the dates are entered this way
you should modify the above formula to read:

=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4), LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,2,2))

Cheers,
Shane Devenshire
Microsoft Excel MVP
 
how would I do this with VBA. I've tried the following:
dDate = Application.WorksheetFunction.Date(Mid(strDateTime, 1, 2),
Mid(strDateTime, 5, 2), Mid(strDateTime, 3, 2))

where stDateTime is 12 digit string in the format 0812011324112 (yymmddhhmmss)

I get an unsupported method error
 
VBA has it's own version of the =date() worksheet function.

Look for DateSerial in VBA's help.

dDate = Dateserial(Mid(strDateTime, 1, 2), _
Mid(strDateTime, 5, 2), _
Mid(strDateTime, 3, 2))
 
Perfeect! Thankyou.

Dave Peterson said:
VBA has it's own version of the =date() worksheet function.

Look for DateSerial in VBA's help.

dDate = Dateserial(Mid(strDateTime, 1, 2), _
Mid(strDateTime, 5, 2), _
Mid(strDateTime, 3, 2))
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