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At 17:48 17/03/2014 +0000, Budgie Noname wrote:
On 17/03/14 13:25, Brian Barker wrote:
At 11:43 17/03/2014 +0000, Budgie Noname wrote:
In short I am having to "massage" a .csv file exported from one system before importing it into an accounting system. The accountant wants a "Comment" column added before importing the file which summarises information held in four other columns. Two columns contain names and do not present a problem but the other two have dates. In the .csv file the dates are shown 02-Oct-14 and I am having trouble getting these dates treated as text.
To get the names I have:-
=B2&" "&C2 but how do I copy the dates?
If you have real dates in the columns and you need to include them 
as text in the additional column, just use TEXT(D2;"DD-MMM-YY") 
where you would otherwise use D2 in your formula, and so on.
But if you mean that your original CSV file has these dates in this 
format, there is an easier way.  When you open the CSV file, you 
should see the Text Import dialogue.  Under Fields, click in the 
date columns and then select Text from the drop-down menu against 
"Column type".  The dates will be imported as text and you will not 
need the above workaround.
Having managed to write the comment column with your help I have 
another problem.  The contents of the comment cells comprise 
elements put there by the formula.  How may I "freeze" them as text 
so that I may delete the columns used by the formula?
o Copy the relevant cells.
o Go to Edit | Paste Special... (or right-click | Paste Special... or Ctrl+Shift+V). o In the Paste Special dialogue, ensure that "Paste all" is not ticked and then that Text (or whatever) is ticked but Formulas is *not* ticked.
I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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