Is there a method to convert these column in data format? (gg/mm/aaaa hh:mm:ss)
DATE : 20220601 >>>> 2022/06/01
HOUR : 3047 >>>>> 00:30:47 (hh:mm:ss)
I have serious problem with column B, i need to convert it in (hh:mm:ss). Someone can help me?
The final result should be "01/06/2022 00:30:47"
If you have Excel 365 you can use this formula:
=LET(HourText,TEXT(B2,"000000"),
DateText, A2,
HourFinal,TIME(LEFT(HourText,2),MID(HourText,3,2),RIGHT(HourText,2)),
DateFinal, DATE(LEFT(DateText,4),MID(DateText,5,2),RIGHT(DateText,2)),
DateFinal + HourFinal)
It first takes the text-hour and the text date.
Text hour is formatted as hhmmss - to have the zeros for hour if missing. Then it is easier to return the true hour.
Adding both values (date + hour (yes this is mathematical addition) returns the date.
You can then format the date as you like, e.g. as dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm.ss
Try-
=TEXTJOIN("/",TRUE,MID(A1,{1,5,7},{4,2,2})) & " " & TEXTJOIN(":",TRUE,MID(RIGHT("00"&B1,6),{1,3,5},{2,2,2}))
For pure date value use below function then use cell format to show your desired date/time format.
=DATEVALUE(TEXTJOIN("/",TRUE,MID(A1,{1,5,7},{4,2,2})))+TIMEVALUE(TEXTJOIN(":",TRUE,MID(RIGHT("00"&B1,6),{1,3,5},{2,2,2})))
Here is an easy alternative solution, using the TEXT() Function with a Custom Formatting for Dates 0000\/00\/00 while for Times 00\:00\:00
• Formula used in cell C2
=TEXT(A2,"0000\/00\/00")+TEXT(B2,"00\:00\:00")
So, the first part of the TEXT() function returns & converts the Numbers into Dates, while the second part returns & converts the Numbers into Times, and as we know that Dates & Times are stored as Numbers in Excel, so the Integer part which represents the Dates and the Decimal which represents Times, when added to together returns a Number with Decimals using the TEXT() Function.
Hence if the cells are not formatted before then please select the cell or range and press CTRL+1 --> Format cells Dialogue Opens --> Number Tab --> Category --> Custom --> and type by removing General as dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss or as per your region it will be gg/mm/aaaa hh:mm:ss
Note: For more inspiration on converting Dates when shown like those numbers, you can refer this link, I have shared a whole lot of alternatives.
CHANGE THE DATE FORMAT
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Is there a way for me to format a column where the values I enter in the format HH:MM (elapsed time, not datetime) are converted to hours in decimal, preferably in the same column via some custom formula?
For example,
HH:MM
H (Decimal)
07:39
7.65
02:15
2.25
06:00
6
At the moment, I manually calculate the equivalent and enter them into the column but it would be nice to directly copy a timestamp and have the column automatically format it but I couldn't see an option for this in Date/Time formatting settings.
Simply multiply your hh:mm durations by 24, ensuring that the cells where you want the decimal hours returned are formatted as 'Number'. Or to force formatting as a number using a formula: =text(duration_cell*24,"#.##") where duration_cell is a cell with the duration in hh:mm format.
There is no way to do that I know of because Excel stores times/dates as floats. Each 24 hour period equals 1, therefore 7:33 equals .31458 Therefore, you won't be able to do this without a helper column.
You can do this with either #The God of Biscuits answer, or alternatively your helper column can have the formula:
=(A1*24)
and you set that column's cell format to Number.
All date and time is a format of a double value.
Time is the amount after the comma.
And all in front of comma is days since 00.01.1900.
Meaning 07:37:00 = 0,32 days.
Excel have a ways to pull the amount of hours with =HOUR('Your referance date time cell value')
You can aply this formula: =HORA(A2)+(MINUTO(A2)/60)
i have a column in excel where data is in mix format as some date are in dd/mm/yyyy and some date are in yyyy/dd/mm
i want to convert dates which are only in yyyy/dd/mm --> dd/mm/yyyyhttps://i.stack.imgur.com/5SOV1.png
what is the way i can do this?
i tried concatenate(left()) and concatenate(middle()) and concatenate(right()) and then concate() to combine all this 3 different fields but then it is messing up the true date format i want that is dd/mm/yyyy as some dates are already in dd/mm/yyyy and i made used concatenate() for format yyyy/dd/mm
Let's say you have the input data in text format in column A. In column B you have the output in the equivalent date format (not text format). This is the proper way to handle dates. You asked to convert it to another text format, but I think it is better to have them as an Excel date type.
The following formula does that:
=LET(rng, A1:A4, texts, DROP(REDUCE("", rng, LAMBDA(acc,text,
VSTACK(acc, TEXTSPLIT(text,"/")))),1),
first, INDEX(texts,,1), second, INDEX(texts,,2), third, INDEX(texts,,3),
MAP(first, second, third, LAMBDA(a,b,c, IF(LEN(a)=4, DATE(a, c, b),
DATE(c, b, a))))
)
The formula returns an array, so there is no need to drag down the formula, useful for a large input data set. If you prefer to drag the formula down, then you can use the following formula:
=LET(text, TEXTSPLIT(A1,"/"), first, INDEX(text,1,1), second, INDEX(text,1,2),
third, INDEX(text,1,3), IF(LEN(first) = 4, DATE(first, third, second),
DATE(third, second, first))
)
Note: If you really want the dates in text format, then you can do it by replacing DATE function with: a&"/"&c&"/"&b and c&"/"&b&"/"&a respectively or to encapsulate DATE output with TEXT function, for example, TEXT(DATE(a, c, b), "mm/dd/yyyy") in the format of your preference.
Here is the output:
The previous solution works because we have a way to identify the year as a 4-digit number. If the year has 2-digits, then you need to build a logic to differentiate a year from a month or a day.
Because the data is in Excel date format (internally it is stored as a whole number), then you can format the date in the format of your preference without changing the data. In the screenshot, you see the dates in mm/dd/yyyy format. Having the data as a date type, you can use all Excel functionalities for working with dates. Having dates in text data type will have more limitations.
Here is the output using the UK locale and returning the dates in dd/mm/yyyy, but it is the same output data, just different visualization:
I am trying to find out how to stop a formula from changing the date value to Julian date when referencing a date field.
This is what is happening:
This is what I want:
Is it possible in excel to get the display value of a cell instead of the text value of a cell?
You can use the Text() formula to convert data into a string using a specific format you define in the second parameter:
=IF(A1="yes", Text(B1, "mm/dd/yyyy") & " " & C1)
The reason you have to do this is because the implicit concatenation of B1 and C1 has an output of format String. So Excel takes the date, converts it to a string and concatenates with C1. Instead of letting Excel do the string casting, we do it ourselves using Text() and specifying how we want the date to be formatted BEFORE the concatenation begins.
It's always a good idea to avoid letting excel figure out your formats. It's really bad at guessing.
I have an Excel file which is exported from a Access database.
I have 25000 records and I will need to replace all of them.
The date column is not formatted (yymmdd). I need to change the date format from yymmdd to dd/mm/19yy. For the yy I need to add a constant value 19 in front of it so it would be 19yy.
I have only 1 date column per row
Is there any way to convert all the 25000 record's column formatted in yymmdd to dd/mm/19yy in a few clicks?. Thank you
This will give you the result as an actual date which you can then format as you wish using Excel's date formatting options.
=DATE(1900+LEFT(A1,2), MID(A1,3,2), RIGHT(A1,2))
If you don't need to parse it into a date value, but merely need to display a date in the format you identified, the following will work on a value in cell A1 (copy down to the rest of the 25,000 values as needed:
=RIGHT(A1,2) & "/" & MID(A1,3,2) & "/19" & LEFT(A1,2)
In my cell A1, I entered the value 981116. This formula converted it to 16/11/1998. I think that's what you're looking for, right?
Assuming data starts at A2 put this formula in B2
=(19&TEXT(A1,"00-00-00"))+0
Now format B2 in required date format, e.g. mm/dd/yyyy
and you can easily "fill down" all 25000 rows by doing this:
put cursor on bottom right of B2 (first cell with formula) until you see a black "+" - that's the "fill-handle" - double click and the formula will populate as far down as you have continuous data in the adjacent column
Note: you can probably omit the 19& if all your dates are after 1930 because the default is to treat any date written without the century as 1900s if it's >=30 or 2000s if it's <30 [although you can change that in regional settings]
Currently I exported some data, from a database using a query in which each row for a "comment" column begins with a date formatted as MM/DD/YY.
I used the =LEFT(TEXT,8) function to only extract the date but it happens that the some of the dates are formatted inconsistently so we may have some that are M/D/YY where the month or day isn't two digits, this will then include a ';' as a separator since it is less than 8 characters.
Is there a way I can format the text so the ';' is excluded? That way I can sort the data.
I think the DATEVALUE function does most of what you need. It takes in many different date formats (M/D/YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY etc) and converts it to an excel date (i.e. # of days since 1/1/1900).
The formula below says:
If the date is clean then just apply DATEVALUE function
If there is an error, just use the part to the left of the ';'
Assuming 9/1/2013 is Cell A2:
Input Data Sortable Excel Date
---------- -------------------
9/1/2013; =IFERROR(DATEVALUE(A2),DATEVALUE(LEFT(A2,FIND(";",A2)-1)))
09/2/2013; 9/2/2013
10/1/2013; 10/1/2013
10/10/2013 10/10/2013
I've made a live Excel sample here.
Assuming your text looks like this: ;1/;2/13 or 1/2/13;; or ;;1/2/13
You can use substitute like this:
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,";","")
The result will be:
So if date is either the first 6, 7 or 8 characters of A2 you can get the date with this formula
=LOOKUP(10^10,LEFT(A2,{6,7,8})+0)
format result cell in required date format
As the result is a valid date you can sort these as you would sort numbers