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.
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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
The day is missing so it just needs to be first of the month so:
11/17 would be 11/01/2017
Is there a formula that can do this?
There is two approaches:
Set the Category type of the cell (in Format Cell) as Custom and define this format in Type field: mm/dd/yyyy
In case of the format cell is text (working with string)
Assuming the validate entered in cell A1, use below formula:
=LEFT(A1,2)&"/01/"&IF(LEN(A1)=8,2,20)&RIGHT(A1,2)
This is probably a stupid formula but it worked for me;
=DATE(100 + RIGHT(TEXT(A6,"MM/YY"),2),LEFT(TEXT(A6,"MM/YY"),2),1)
Try it out it takes the existing "MM/YY" format and converts it to a MM/DD/YYYY date using the date foromula =DATE(Year,Month,Day). It works if the date is in date format or text format.
I've copied data into Excel from a SQL database. The way the data is formatted before it gets copied over is: YYYY-MM-DD
After it gets copied over, it shows in excel as M/DD/YYYY.
I right-clicked the column and selected Format Cells to a custom format just as I needed.
The problem is that if I select the value, although the spreadsheet shows the value I need, the actual value itself is different (I'll include a screenshot to show what I'm seeing):
My end goal is to select an empty cell and do a simple formula which is:
=" DateValue="&B1&" "
But it outputs something completely different. Example: If my date was 2016-09-23 or just as it shows above in the image, when applying the formula above, I get:
DateValue=42636
When what I need is :
DateValue=2016-09-23
Can anyone advise how to achieve this end goal?
Use:
=" DateValue="&TEXT(B1,"yyyy-mm-dd")&" "
It does not matter what the format of B1 is. You force the desired format in the C1 formula.
You can nest TEXT function within CONCAT function. Text function returns the text in the desired format, and concat function concatenates strings. Following formula will convert the date in cell A1 to the desired output:
=CONCAT("DateValue=", TEXT(A1, "yyyy-mm-dd"))
In Google Sheets, I need to combine a date with a string. These are the contents of my three cells:
cell formula shows
A1 05/11/2014 2014-11-05 (the cell is formatted as date)
B1 JS JS (text)
C1 A1 & B1 41948JS
I need cell C1 to display 2014-11-05JS - i.e., a combined string containing the date.
How to achieve this?
Please try:
=left(A1,5)&mid(A1,6,2)&right(A1,3)&B1
(I am assuming there are typos in your question).
Use CONCATENATE function.
Example:
= CONCATENATE(A5, " ", A6)
Importantly, In default date will not properly get appended. You need to select date field(s) and format it is "Plain Text". Option can seen at Format >> Number >> Plain Text
More functions are given here
You can use the CONCATENATE (or CONCAT) function. Each of them has advantages:
CONCAT can combine number and string
CONCATENATE can use many arguments at the same time
so you can use
CONCAT many times
or
CONCATENATE + many TO_TEXT
Extract the date components using YEAR, MONTH and DAY functions.
I have data in the format as d.hh.mm.ss and hh.mm.ss and I need to conver both into a time value of HH.MM.SS
In A1 the text string is 16.21:38:27
in A2 the text string is 04:08:45
My resulting cell should show B1 405:38:27
B2 04:08:45
I have tried using =LEFT(A1,SEARCH(":",A1)-1)+TIMEVALUE(MID(A1,SEARCH(":",A1)+1,255))
but the results are wrong
A1 is shown as 403:29:24
A2 is shown as 104:45:00
I would like one formula for both strings
As 4:08:45 is a valid time format and 16.21:38:27 is not this formula should work for you in both cases:
=IF(ISNUMBER(A1+0),A1+0,RIGHT(A1,8)+LEFT(A1,FIND(".",A1)-1))
format result cells as [h]:mm:ss
Here it is:
= IF(ISERROR(FIND(".",A1)),
TIMEVALUE(A1),
VALUE(LEFT(A1,FIND(".",A1)-1)) + TIMEVALUE(MID(A1, FIND(".", A1)+1, 8)))
If a "." doesn't exist in the string, it simply uses TIMEVALUE() to parse the time. Otherwise, it parses the portion before and after the "." separately. The number of days forms the integer portion of the result, and the time is computed as a fractional day. This is then formatted using the standard formatting dialog into [h]:mm:ss format.
If you want B1 to store a string of the converted hours/minutes/seconds rather than a formatted number, wrap the whole of the above in TEXT(formula above, "[h]:mm:ss").
#TimWilliams hit the nail on the head. You have a typo. Change 16.21:38:27 to 16:21:38:27 and it will work fine. You can additionally wrap your formula to check the length. If it is more than 8 Chars then it means a date is added to it. See this example
Try this (You can use this for both)
=IF(LEN(A1)>8,LEFT(A1,SEARCH(":",A1)-1)+TIMEVALUE(MID(A1,SEARCH(":",A1)+1,255)),TIMEVALUE(A1))
SNAPSHOT
EDIT
I just noticed that you have hardcoded 255 in your formula. You don't need to do that. This will also work.
=IF(LEN(A1)>8,LEFT(A1,SEARCH(":",A1)-1)+TIMEVALUE(MID(A1,SEARCH(":",A1)+1,LEN(A1)-SEARCH(":",A1)+1)),TIMEVALUE(A1))
BTW, to make it foolproof you make also add the TRIM function to the above formula as well...