I want to show 'Today's Date' in excel in this below format:-
Example: 12 March 2019
While I am trying TODAY() function it returns '3/12/2019'
You can use Today() function and right click on the specific cell you want to format and select the Format Cells option. In the Format Cells box, click the Number tab. In the Category list, click Date. Select the required date format from the list of formats. You could also use the Custom option to specify other fomats.
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May I know how to use excel function to formula this type of date ?
Your kind help is much appreciated.
Select the cells you want to format.
Press CTRL+1.
In the Format Cells box, click the Number tab.
In the Category list, click Date.
Under Type, pick a date format. Your format will preview in the Sample box with the first date in your data.
I have a CSV file which has date in mm/dd/yyyy format in column A. Here are the steps that i took to extract month from it.
Select the entire column A and click on Format Cells
In Format Cells, Click on Custom and used the string mm/dd/yyyy there
Clicked Ok
On column D (or any other column), I entered the following text =TEXT(A1, "mmmm"). This text is supposed to extract month number from column A1 and convert into month. But it just copies the whole date there.
What i am missing here?
The dates that you see are most likely strings that look like dates. You can convert them to actual dates using the DATE(year, month, day) function. Something like:
=DATE(RIGHT(A1,4), LEFT(A1,2), MID(A1,4,2))
(A1 contains the text date.) And then you can apply the date format to the column where you put this formula.
The text you specified is the syntax for getting the month name as a formula.
If you are just changing the number formatting of the cells, you specify the custom number format mmmm.
Point two should be changed. In the Format Cells click on Date and select anything from the predefined formats:
Then the initial formula should work:
=TEXT(A1, "mmmm")
I have a data set with column A containing different date formats, the column format is date:
I would like to have all entries in the format dd-mm-yyyy, and one formula for the whole column.
With format cells, I could not get them into the same format.
I tried TEXT(A3, "dd-mm-yyyy"), but this does not do anything.
DATEVALUE(A3) gives me an error.
Is there a simple solution to this?
Given that Excel cannot parse the date before 01-01-1900 you'd need a proper date and then select your range, and go Data>Text to Columns.
Here, select Delimited and click Next. Deselect all options (usually only Tab is selected) and click Next. Select Date option and choose the format which seems to be DMY in your case.
Then you can use the formula such as:
=TEXT(A3,"dd-mm-yyyy")
I received a excel spreadsheet to complete, and there is a column that is displaying a number formatting instead of a date, I tried changing the individual cell by right clicking and formatting the cell into date format however the cell is still displaying a number value instead of the date. See example below:
43049 instead of 11/10/2017
What do I need to do to change the cell to display the date text?
Right click on the cell or range
In the pop up click on Format Cells
Under Number on the category sub menu click on date and choose the date type you want
OR
Select the Cell Or Cells
Click On HOME menu Ribbon
Change the formatting from General to Short Date
I'm tyring to create a time series in the format of yyyy-mm (e.g 1950-01:1950-12) for the period 1950-2016.
I have changed the cell format to this custom setting but still when I try and drag down to autofill the next date after xxxx-12 is xxxx-13 instead of 01.
Can anybody advise me on how to get excel to recognize this pattern please?
Select the cells you want to format.
Press CTRL+1.
In the Format Cells box, click the number tab.
In the Category list, click custom, and then under Type, type the date format that you want