Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot Change Date Format in Calc

On 17/03/14 20:51, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> That is what i was thinking of but now i re-read the original post in
> this thread i think that has already been tried.
>
> Maybe just use Brian's advice but instead of making it a text-field
> just keep it as a normal number-field or (if it does allow you (which
> i doubt)) as a date field.  In the Csv file the date then probably
> won't look like a date, just as some weird number instead.  Calc will
> let you format the column in some suitable date format.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
> On 17 March 2014 20:45, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 03/17/2014 04:30 PM, Budgie wrote:
> > > I have an .ods file and a column with dates in it resists all my attempts
> > > to change the format.  The column was created when I opened a .csv file in
> > > Calc and the dates were shown as, for example, 12 Feb 2014.
> > > At some time during the editing of this file the dates became shown as
> > > 12-Feb-14 but I have not intended this change.  What I want is date in
> > > DD/MM/YYYY format.  I can highlight the column and try and format it but
> > > nothing changes.  Am I doing something wrong here?
> > > Budgie
> > Budgie
> >
> > Try using FORMAT >> CELLS >> Numbers then select Date then select date
> > format. This works for me when I want to clean csv file date imports.
> >
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> >
> >
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Hi Brian and Jay,
Well your analysis is correct and the "date" is in text format.  What is 
odd however is that the format changed from 12 Feb 2014 which DATEVALUE 
can recognise and I could have used to 12-Feb-2014 which it cannot. 
Since there are only 40 odd lines involved I have entered the dates 
correctly by hand.  Next time I shall operate on initial file with 
DATEVALUE.
Thanks again for your help.
Budgie

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