I have VBA code which pull the details from .msg file (outlook files) and update in excel sheet. While reflecting the date column, it is showing as "3/9/2016 11:03:27 AM" but I want to show only date and not time.
I used the format option i.e.
Sheet2.Cells(Row + 1, 23) = VBA.Format(sentDate, "dd/MM/yyyy")
but it is showing the date a "8/3/2016 00:00". I want to reflecting only date and nothing else. Please guide me as to what all changes required to reflect only date.
Give this a try:
Sheet2.Cells(Row + 1, 23).Value = sentDate
Sheet2.Cells(Row + 1, 23).NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy;#"
Yet, I have a feeling that the cell does not really contain a date but merely text. So, please also try to change the .NumberFormat to the following first:
Sheet2.Cells(Row + 1, 23).NumberFormat = "General"
If the dates are now showing all as numbers then these are actual dates and the first proposal should work. If not, then these are not dates yet and you'll have to convert the text (which looks like dates) to dates first.
For more information you might want to read this: Difference between date and time w/out work week Excel
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I have a date and time which I assemble into a date + time from strings in the form
date_string = "2020-12-30" 'yyyy-mm-dd
date_code = CDate(date_string)
time_string = "00:00:00" 'hh:mm:ss
time_code = TimeValue(time_string)
date_time = date_code + time_code
Commonly the return looks like 05.01.2019 11:00:00, which is what I expect.
The returned values also all check out as TRUE if I test with IsDate(date_time)
Whenever the time is 00:00:00 however, I only get the date returned with no time appended. I dont quite understand this, since TimeValue(time_string)returns 00:00:00.
So it must be an issue when combining date and time to a date + time string.
Can someone please enlighten me why midnight somehow does no exist in Excel VBA or where my error in creating the time code is?
EDIT:
I try to explain my situation a bit better:
I do this date date/time stuff in code and then but the result in an array in a loop. Only later on it is written to a cell in a table.
By the time is is written into a cell, even custom formatting the cell to "DD.MM.YYYY hh:mm" does not show the time as it is completely missing from the cell value.
Do I neet to apply a format at the point of date_code + time_code?
Sometimes the answer can be so simple. Thanks to Variatus and Paul I checked formatting out.
I applied a date_time = Format(date_code + time_code, "dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm") in my code. Using this, my code runs as expected and 00:00:00 appears as expected, even in the cell values of the Excel table.
When you enter an integer, like 43930, in a cell Excel will record the number as an integer, just as you entered it. You can then proceed to format the cell as #,##0.000 and thereby make the number display as 43930.000. Or you can format that very same number as custom dd mmm yyy hh:mm:ss and display it as 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00. The point is that Excel chose to record the number in its most efficient way, as an integer.
So, if you enter a DateValue + TimeValue which, together, amount to an integer Excel will record the integer correctly. The format in which that integer is displayed in your worksheet is a matter for cell formatting.
I have a small code that gets the Day Name of the Dates listed in Excel. But the problem is, it's not getting the right Day Name(e.g. Tuesday).
For Example:
sDayName = Format(Day(11/1/2016), "dddd")
Then the output produces an incorrect Day Name which is:
sDayName = "Sunday"
when it's supposed to be "Tuesday".
Thanks for the help guys.
For your specific request, assuming your date string is formatted as your regional setings:
sDayName = Format("11/01/2016", "dddd")
If you want the weekday for today:
sDayName = Format(Date, "dddd")
If you want the weekday for any date in any regional settings
sDayName = Format(DateSerial(2016, 11, 4), "dddd")
'change 2016, 11, 4 for your year, month, day values
:)
WEEKDAY Function can be used on this topic and in Vba Codes . For example:
Label2.Caption = WeekdayName(Weekday(TextBox2, 0), False, 0)
I used this function in when I created userform about date entry to active cell.
i use the answer kadrleyn wrote.
But you have to pay attension that the string returned from
WeekdayName(Weekday(TextBox2, 0), False, 0)
is not trimmed so if you want to use it in if statement you have to use trim function.
ps. i could not add comment to his/her answer because of my reputation.
I want to change so many dates saved as text in excel sheets to Arabic (Hijri) date format, ie; dd/mm/yyyy to (right to left) yyyy/mm/dd .. it can be done manually be change custom format from Number Format panel ( by choosing the location , calendar type and the right format from list ) then replace the text in cell by same value ..
I need VBA code to automate this replacement process for any ltr date and for existing rtl date just convert the format from general to date ..
another problem , there is some other text around the date in cell like ( dd/mm/yyyy ttt ) . I want the code to remove this text (ttt) ( any text ) and then change to the right format
I found this code but it is not work to my specific need
Changing the date format to yyyy-mm-dd
I appreciate any help , thanks in advance ..
You have a number of separate problems and it is unrealistic to expect someone else to have posted a complete solution to that set of problems or that someone will code a complete solution for you. You need to split your total problem into its components and create or look for a solution to each component.
You have strings that contain CE dates in the format “dd/mm/yyyy”. These dates could be surrounded by text. You give the example “dd/mm/yyyy ttt”. Can ttt contain spaces? Could the “ttt” come before the date? Could the string be as complicated as “aaaa bbbb cccc 12/11/2016 dddd eeee ffff”?
Whatever the situation, I suspect something like:
Dim Part() As String
Part = Split(.Cells(R, C).Value," ")
would be the core of first step. With my complicated example, this would give:
Part(0) = "aaaa"
Part(1) = "bbbb"
Part(2) = "cccc"
Part(3) = "12/11/2016"
: : : :
A loop over the parts of each cell value looking for a string for which IsDate gives True would allow you to find the date so .Cells(R, C).Value = Part(N) would delete the unwanted text.
I would take a copy of your data and try to code a macro that discards the unwanted text. If you can successfully create that macro, you have completed step 1 of your solution. If you have trouble with this macro, you can ask for help here and expect to get it.
The next step is to convert the string “dd/mm/yyyy” to an Excel date. Excel holds dates as the number of dates since 1/1/1900 CE. Replacing:
.Cells(R, C).Value = Part(N)by .Cells(R, C).Value = CDate(Part(N))ought to do the trick. However, Excel sometimes tries to interpret “dd/mm/yyyy” dates as “mm/dd/yyyy”. I think you will be alright but be aware of this possibility.
Your last step is to convert a date from the CE calendar to the Hijri calendar. This is not just a format issue. The two calendars have different year zeroes and different month lengths. There may be a standard conversion function in your country but there does not appear to be one here in the UK. There is help online so you should be able to find a function that will perform the conversion.
You have a number of separate problems and it is unrealistic to expect someone else to have posted a complete solution to that set of problems or that someone will code a complete solution for you. You need to split your total problem into its components and create or look for a solution to each component.
You have strings that contain CE dates in the format “dd/mm/yyyy”. These dates could be surrounded by text. You give the example “dd/mm/yyyy ttt”. Can ttt contain spaces? Could the “ttt” come before the date? Could the string be as complicated as “aaaa bbbb cccc 12/11/2016 dddd eeee ffff”?
Whatever the situation, I suspect something like:
Dim Part() As String
Part = Split(.Cells(R, C).Value," ")
would be the core of first step. With my complicated example, this would give:
Part(0) = "aaaa"
Part(1) = "bbbb"
Part(2) = "cccc"
Part(3) = "12/11/2016"
: : : :
A loop over the parts of each cell value looking for a string for which IsDate gives True would allow you to find the date so .Cells(R, C).Value = Part(N) would delete the unwanted text.
I would take a copy of your data and try to code a macro that discards the unwanted text. If you can successfully create that macro, you have completed step 1 of your solution. If you have trouble with this macro, you can ask for help here and expect to get it.
The next step is to convert the string “dd/mm/yyyy” to an Excel date. Excel holds dates as the number of dates since 1/1/1900 CE. Replacing:
.Cells(R, C).Value = Part(N)by .Cells(R, C).Value = CDate(Part(N))ought to do the trick. However, Excel sometimes tries to interpret “dd/mm/yyyy” dates as “mm/dd/yyyy”. I think you will be alright but be aware of this possibility.
Your last step is to convert a date from the CE calendar to the Hijri calendar. This is not just a format issue. The two calendars have different year zeroes and different month lengths. There may be a standard conversion function in your country but there does not appear to be one here in the UK. There is help online so you should be able to find a function that will perform the conversion.
You have a number of separate problems and it is unrealistic to expect someone else to have posted a complete solution to that set of problems or that someone will code a complete solution for you. You need to split your total problem into its components and create or look for a solution to each component.
You have strings that contain CE dates in the format “dd/mm/yyyy”. These dates could be surrounded by text. You give the example “dd/mm/yyyy ttt”. Can ttt contain spaces? Could the “ttt” come before the date? Could the string be as complicated as “aaaa bbbb cccc 12/11/2016 dddd eeee ffff”?
Whatever the situation, I suspect something like:
Dim Part() As String
Part = Split(.Cells(R, C).Value," ")
would be the core of first step. With my complicated example, this would give:
Part(0) = "aaaa"
Part(1) = "bbbb"
Part(2) = "cccc"
Part(3) = "12/11/2016"
: : : :
A loop over the parts of each cell value looking for a string for which IsDate gives True would allow you to find the date so .Cells(R, C).Value = Part(N) would delete the unwanted text.
I would take a copy of your data and try to code a macro that discards the unwanted text. If you can successfully create that macro, you have completed step 1 of your solution. If you have trouble with this macro, you can ask for help here and expect to get it.
The next step is to convert the string “dd/mm/yyyy” to an Excel date. Excel holds dates as the number of dates since 1/1/1900 CE. Replacing:
.Cells(R, C).Value = Part(N)by .Cells(R, C).Value = CDate(Part(N))ought to do the trick. However, Excel sometimes tries to interpret “dd/mm/yyyy” dates as “mm/dd/yyyy”. I think you will be alright but be aware of this possibility.
Your last step is to convert a date from the CE calendar to the Hijri calendar. This is not just a format issue. The two calendars have different year zeroes and different month lengths. There may be a standard conversion function in your country but there does not appear to be one here in the UK. There is help online so you should be able to find a function that will perform the conversion.
I'm reading data from one excel file and writing data to another excel file.
My problem is that the source has dates in format dd.mm.yyyy and the destination must have the format dd-mm-yyyy.
So I searched SO and found this answer Replacing one character with another in a string which suggest that I can use substitute.
So I tried this code:
For r = 1 To 10
myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 1).Value = myInputSheet.Cells(r, 1).Value 'Date
myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 1).Value = substitute(myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 1), ".", "-")
Next
It gives the error:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: 'substitute'
How do I correct change the . into - ?
Update
I tried this as well:
For r = 1 To 10
myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 1).Value = myInputSheet.Cells(r, 1).Value 'Date
replace(myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 1), 2, 1, "-")
replace(myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 1), 4, 1, "-")
Next
but this gives the error:
Microsoft VBScript compilation error: Cannot use parentheses when calling a Sub
Therefore I tried:
For r = 1 To 10
myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 1).Value = myInputSheet.Cells(r, 1).Value 'Date
replace myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 1), 2, 1, "-"
replace myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 1), 4, 1, "-"
Next
but that gives the error:
Microsoft VBScript runtime error: Type mismatch: '[string: "-"]'
First of all you should know that all dates and times in Excel are stored as numbers and merely shown as dates.
So, the number 42,000 could be a date if shown as such. It is the 42,000-th day after December 31, 1899. That would be December 27, 2014.
This is where things get complicated: when dates are not stored as numbers but as text in Excel. Then it might seem to an Excel user that there are dates in a cell when in fact there is (for Excel's understanding) only text. While a user cannot possibly tell the difference between the two merely by looking at a cell, the real difference is that you cannot execute and date operations on the text-only dates.
Having sad all that let's have a look at two small examples:
(1) Enter into a cell the following: 11.12.2013. Chances are that Excel will recognize it as a date and will convert it to the number 41,619. Yet, you will see a date. This is because Excel automatically changed the format of that cell from General to Date. But if you change the format of that cell to General then you will get to see the aforementioned number.
(2) Now, enter the following into a cell: 2015-14-11. Once again, chances are that Excel will not recognize that as a date but store it as text-only. When you look at the Number format for that cell then you will probably still get to see General and if you are changing it explicitly to Number you still see 2015-14-11.
Now you can probably better relate to the comments by #vacip above. He/she was trying to find out if you really actually have dates (stored as numbers) in your source file or if you have merely text in this file which might suggest that it contains dates.
If Excel recognized these dates in the source file as such then it is easy to change the format of such simply by changing the .NumberFormat for a cell. In essence, you might want to look into your source file and check if you can show these dates as numbers (the days after December 31, 1899).
If that's the case then you should be able to change the number format to dd-mm-yyyy and you're all set. Yet, it is important again if you want to store text in the destination file or if you want to save dates there. If you want to store dates there and you have them as dates in the source file then I'd suggest the following:
myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).Value2 = myInputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).Value2
myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).NumberFormat = "dd-mm-yyyy"
Yet, if you insist on transferring 13.11.2013 into the destination file then you will want to use the following (under the condition that there are actually recognized dates in the source file):
myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).Value2 = Format(myInputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).Value2, "dd-mm-yyyy")
Where it might get a bit complicated is when you are having text in the source file. If you don't mind that it stays text and you really just want to change the . for a - then you can use the Replace as suggested in a comment above:
myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).Value = Replace(myInputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).Value, ".", "-")
Yet, if you have text in the source file and you want to save dates in the destination file then you can ask Excel to try a conversion with CDate and check upfront if a cell's content could possibly be recognized as a date with IsDate:
myOutputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).Value2 = Iif(IsDate(myInputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).Value, CDate(myInputSheet.Cells(6+r, 2).Value), "no recognizable date")
You might have recognized by now that I used sometimes .Value and somethimes .Value2 in the above code snippets. For more on this you might want to read the following: What is the difference between .text, .value, and .value2?
BTW: times are also stored as number. They are - in fact - saved as fractions of a day. So, the number 0.5 equates to half a day and that would be 12:00 noon. At the same time, 09:00 in the morning is 0.375 and 18:00 or 6pm equates to 0.75.
I grab dates from one spreadsheet and output them onto another spreadsheet. After grabbing the date, when I debug.print it is in the correct format. When I output the date, debug.print also displays the correct format. However, the format on the spreadsheet the value has just been sent to, doesnt show the correct format.
I am using:
Sheets(SheetName).Cells(RowNum, ColNum).Value = Data
Sheets(SheetName).Cells(RowNum, ColNum).NumberFormat = "dd/mm/yyyy"
after I have pasted the value, but the months and days are still switched the wrong way.
Is there something I am doing wrong?? If I right click the cell it thinks it's date is dd/mm/yyyy but instead of 4th Sept it is showing 9th April.
This might be some trouble with localization:
Try using NumberFormatLocal, if DanielCooks tip didn't help ;)
edit: erlier it was statet by mister Cook, to check if the given data is correct.
edit:
With my german version I have quite some trouble to use / as the seperator, that is why i tryied with this code .NumberFormat ="dd-mm-yyyy;#" - works fine; I can switch days and month as I like.
edit:
With .NumberFormatLocal = "TT/MM/JJJJ" I have to use the german shorts for day, month and year, but now I can use / as the seperator.
You should experiment a litte bit with some formats strings ;)
Sorry to resurrect an old post, however I had a problem with VBA outputting a valid date as US style with the actual date changed for example 1st May changed to 5th Jan. I came upon this post but I didn't find the answer I needed here and now that I have worked it out I thought I would share it:
The key is not to define the variable storing the date as a "date" but as a "double", e.g.
Dim ReportDate As Double
ReportDate = Date
Range("E6").Value = ReportDate
This works as it outputs the numeric "date value" which excel then formats locally e.g. 41644 gets formatted as "05/01/14" using UK format or "01/05/14" using US format.
Hope this proves useful to other people (probably me when I forget how I solved it in six months time).
In the end I had to format the cell as "TEXT" to keep the correct format
(1) You need to define the variable to "Date" type to read the input, then set the date format before assigning it to the date variable.
(2) You also need to format the date output to make it work !
'**Read the date input****
Dim date1 as Date
Range("B2").NumberFormatLocal = "dd/mm/yyyy"
date1 = Range("B2").Value
'**Output the date****
Range("E2").Value = date1
Range("E2").NumberFormatLocal = "dd/mm/yyyy"