In Excel I am using DDE to pull intraday stock quote information. So it is continuously updating. I am trying to:
=COUNTIF(A:A,"="&TODAY())
But the column A:A which are dates some not of current date. Are being produced by functions or forumlas so they are not being read as text. I don't want to change the column into text so it can be read. because it refreshes every minute.
Is there a way to get =COUNTIF(A:A,"="&TODAY()) to read the text that is being produced by the functions within A:A instead of the functions?
Please reference the comments below the OP question.
The problem was that the dates were displayed with a number format that did not reveal there was a time component as well.
The time component was 8:00 AM.
The following formula solved the issue:
=COUNTIF(A:A,"="&TODAY()+8/24)
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One of the daily repetitive tasks that my team handles requires using an excel template to format and upload rate indices to our system.
The 9 cells that contain the rates are currently set up as individual outside cell references. The format of the cell formulas are: ='S:\Ext1\Ext2[RATESHEET 02-02-2023.xlsx]RateName'!$C$7
The file being referenced in [RATESHEET 02-02-2023.xlsx] is updated every day with a new file and the current date. Right now, a member of the team has to go in daily and update each reference cell formula with today's date. I want this to update without going in to every cell.
I have three possibilities that seem plausible, but I can't seem to search correctly to figure out if any of these are possible in Excel.
Best case scenario, I would love to nest the function TEXT(TODAY(), "mm-dd-yyyy") into the reference formula and have each reference cell update with the daily date every time the file is opened.
Second best, I considered that all of the cells could reference a dummy cell that has the text/today function already in it.
Third best idea is to provide a user prompt to enter the date in that format, and have it update the cells from there.
Excel wizards, please let me know if there is any good way to accomplish this task.
I have this column in excel. The format is dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss.SSS where SSS is milliseconds.
How can I make calculations such as subtracting two cells from each other? I keep getting an incorrect format error but I cannot find a format that includes date and time with milliseconds.
I am able to change the notation of the DateTime value but not split it into two cells.
Comments up above will suggest the built in test to columns method which works really well. Scotts tip about the third step is imperative. Jeroen's comments is using the DATEVALUE function which can be picky and somewhat dependent on your system settings. There is a third choice of using DATE. Jeroen's formula already does most of the work but needs a little tweaking. The nice part of DATE is it is not picky nor reliant on system settings.
Important tidbit of info. Excel stores dates as an integer with 1 representing 1900/01/01. Time is stored as a decimal which represents percentage of a day. So 0.5 is 12:00 noon. Also 24:00 is not a valid time for excel but will still work with some functions.
The DATE function looks for 3 arguments to be passed to it. Year, month, and day in that order. So it is just a matter of pulling the applicable parts of your timestamp as a string out and placing them in the right location. There is a Similar function for TIME.
Let assume one of your timestamps is located in C3
in D3 you can place the following formula to convert the date from text to an excel date:
=DATE(MID(C3,7,4),MID(C3,4,2),LEFT(C3,2))
In E3 you can place the following formula to convert the time from text to an excel time:
=TIME(MID(C3,12,2),MID(C3,15,2),MID(C4,18,6)
To get the information together its simply D3+E3. however if you want to place the whole formula in one cell and avoide helper columns, the formula would look like:
=DATE(MID(C3,7,4),MID(C3,4,2),LEFT(C3,2))+TIME(MID(C3,12,2),MID(C3,15,2),MID(C4,18,6)
Now that the time in in excel format you can perform operations on it, apply formatting to make it look like you want, and use various excel functions with it.
Currently using a calculated SharePoint column (uses same excel formulas)
I have a column "SignIn" that shows the date/time of a staff sign-in. I have another column "Late Flag" that will show if they are late or not. There are sometimes multiple sign-ins/outs throughout the day, So I need the formula to only flag them as late between a certain time frame (09:35:00 AM to 10:15:00 AM). I have tried a few different formulas - but they keep producing unexpected results (like they all show as late, when they're not).
For example:
=IF(AND([SignIn]>"9:35:00 AM",[SignIn]<"10:15:00 AM"]),"Late","")
This shows my column setup
I have a date/time column for SignIn, and a single line of text column for Late Flag
Most likely your data is converted to a timevalue and shows as "9:36:00 AM", but when selected the true cell value will be "09:36:00" which is because excel has recognised it as a time and converted it to one. However in your formula "9:35:00 AM" will be a string (text value) which will never match with a time value. To get around this you can use TIMEVALUE( in your formula to convert it like a time like so:
=IF(AND(A1>TIMEVALUE("9:35:00"),A1<TIMEVALUE("10:15:00 AM")),"Late","Not")
Also, it might be possible the time in your cell is actually text, which cannot be compared to any time value to begin with. This complicates things, but not much, just wrap a TIMEVALUE( around that as well:
=IF(AND(TIMEVALUE(A1)>TIMEVALUE("9:35:00"),TIMEVALUE(A1)<TIMEVALUE("10:15:00 AM")),"Late","Not")
Using the formula below to achieve it.
=IF(AND(TIME(HOUR([SignIn]),MINUTE([SignIn]),SECOND([SignIn])) > TIME(9,35,0),TIME(HOUR([SignIn]),MINUTE([SignIn]),SECOND([SignIn]))<TIME(10,15,0)), "Late", "")
More information: TIME function
I created the time log for what I do:
To better illustrate, I attached the image as follows:
where start and end are the time when I started the particular task in the column A, and delta is the difference between the values in End and Start.
In the next sheet, I created the the summary of how much time I spent on each criteria like this:
Now the problem I had is:
1) The formula I have in the hour field in the summary sheet is this:
=sumif('Time spent'!$A$2:$A$100,A3,'Time spent'!$D$2:$D$100)
How do I make it so that values are up for the entry put in today? The reason why I want this feature is so that I can see my performance for today.
I have this on Google Doc, but I also would like to know how to get this done in Excel as well
In Excel, starting in version 2007 you can use the SUMIFS function - which allows multiple conditions. In your case, the syntax would be:
=SUMIFS('Time spent'!$D$2:$D$100,'Time spent'!$A$2:$A$100,A3,'Time spent'!$E$2:$E$100,TODAY())
In Excel 2003, you can do this with a SUMPRODUCT:
=SUMPRODUCT('Time spent'!$D$2:$D$100*('Time spent'!$A$2:$A$100=A3)*('Time spent'!$E$2:$E$100=TODAY()))
Here is a list of dates:
04-22-11
12-19-11
11-04-11
12-08-11
09-27-11
09-27-11
04-01-11
When you copy this list in Excel, some of them are recognized as dates, others not, in the following manner:
04-22-11
12-19-11
11-04-11 (date)
12-08-11 (date)
09-27-11
09-27-11
04-01-11 (date)
Does anyone know why? And how to force Excel to recognize all list items as dates?
Many thanks!
It is caused by Excel auto-recognizing/formatting the cell contents, but in unclear/inconsistent ways.
Fixing it is not that hard...
Check out this forum post:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/excel-not-recognizing-dates-dates-t3139469.html
The steps in short:
Select only the column of "dates"
Click Data > Text to Columns
Click Next
Click Next
In step 3 of the wizard, check "Date" under Col data format, then
choose: "DMY" from the droplist.
Click Finish
This is caused by the regional settings of your computer.
When you paste data into excel it is only a bunch of strings (not dates).
Excel has some logic in it to recognize your current data formats as well as a few similar date formats or obvious date formats where it can assume it is a date. When it is able to match your pasted in data to a valid date then it will format it as a date in the cell it is in.
Your specific example is due to your list of dates is formatted as "m/d/yy" which is US format. it pastes correctly in my excel because I have my regional setting set to "US English" (even though I'm Canadian :) )
If you system is set to Canadian English/French format then it will expect "d/m/yy" format and not recognize any date where the month is > 13.
The best way to import data, that contains dates, into excel is to copy it in this format.
2011-04-22
2011-12-19
2011-11-04
2011-12-08
2011-09-27
2011-09-27
2011-04-01
Which is "yyyy-MM-dd", this format is recognized the same way on every computer I have ever seen (is often refered to as ODBC format or Standard format) where the units are always from greatest to least weight ("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fff") another side effect is it will sort correctly as a string.
To avoid swaping your regional settings back and forth you may consider writting a macro in excel to paste the data in. a simple popup format and some basic logic to reformat the dates would not be too difficult.
In your case it is probably taking them in DD-MM-YY format, not MM-DD-YY.
The quickest and easiest way to fix this is to do a find and replace on your date seperator, with the same separator.
For example in this case Find "-" and Replace with "-", not sure why this works but you will find all dates are right-aligned as they should be after doing this.
Here is what worked for me. I highlighted the column with all my dates. Under the Data tab, I selected 'text to columns' and selected the 'Delimited' box, I hit next and finish. Although it didn't seem like anything changed, Excel now read the column as dates and I was able to sort by dates.
The simplest solution is to put yy,mm,dd into the date() formula by first extracting them with left(), mid() and right(). In this case, assuming your input date is in A1:
=date(right(A1,2)+100,left(A1,2),mid(A1,4,2))
Explanation of above:
=right(A1,2) gets the last two digits in the cell (yy). We add 100 because it defaults to 1911 instead 2011 (omit +100 if it doesn't do that on yours)
=left(A1,2) gets the first two digits in the cell (mm).
=mid(A1,4,2) gets 2 digits in the middle of the cell, starting at 4th digit (dd).
Why this happens in the first place:
I come across this problem all the time when I import Canadian bank data into excel. In short, your input date format does not match your regional settings.
Seems your setting mean Excel wants date input as either DD-MM-YY or YY-MM-DD, but your input data is formatted as MM-DD-YY.
So, excel sees your days as months and vice-versa, which means any date with day below 12 will be recognized as a date, BUT THE WRONG DATE (month and day reversed) and any date with day above 12 won't be recognized as a date at all, because Excel sees the day as a 13th+ month.
Unfortunately, you can't just change the formatting, because Excel has already locked those day/month assignments in place, and you just end up moving what Excel THINKS are days and months around visually, not reassigning them.
Frankly, it is surprising to me there is not a date-reverse tool in excel, because I would think this happens all the time. But the formula above does it pretty simply.
NOTE: if your dates don't have leading zeros (i.e. 4/8/11 vs 04/08/12) it gets trickier because you have to extract different amounts of digits depending on the date (i.e. 4/9/11 vs 4/10/11). You then have to build a couple if statements in your formula. Gross.
Here is what worked for me on a mm/dd/yyyy format:
=DATE(VALUE(RIGHT(A1,4)),VALUE(LEFT(A1,2)),VALUE(MID(A1,4,2)))
Convert the cell with the formula to date format and drag the formula down.
Right-click on the column header and select Format Cells, the chose Date and select the desired date format. Those that are not recognized are ambiguous, and as such not interpreted as anything but that is resolved after applying formatting to the column. Note that for me, in Excel 2002 SP3, the dates given above are automatically and correctly interpreted as dates when pasting.
A workaround for this problem consists in temporarily changing your regional settings, so the date format of the CSV imported file "matches" the regional settings one.
Open Office seems to work in a similar way for that issue, see: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=85898
I come across this problem when I tried to convert to Australian date format in excel. I split the cell with delimiter and used the following code from split cells then altered the issue areas.
=date(dd,mm,yy)