Re: [libreoffice-users] How to reverse a date format

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 7:38 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:
> At 06:26 17/07/2017 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
> > This spread sheet has several columns of dates written MM/DD/YYYY. I need
> > to reverse it to YYYY/MM/DD. This is what I came up with:
> >
> > =MID(A17,FIND("/",A17)+4,1024)&"/"&IF(LEN(LEFT(A14,FIND("/",A14)-1))=1,LEFT(A14,FIND("/",A14)-2)&"0"&LEFT(A14,FIND("/",A14)-1))&"/"&MID(A17,FIND("/",A17)+1,2)
>
>
> I'm guessing that you mean that this is for dates written as text, not
> proper spreadsheet dates as internal numbers formatted to show as you
> describe. I'd consider doing this a different way.
> o Select the relevant column.
> o Go to Data | Text to Columns... .
> o Under Fields, click the column header.
> o For Column type, select "Date (MDY)" (yes: really!).
> o OK.
> Your dates are now in internal numeric format and can be formatted as
> YYYY/MM/DD if you wish.
>
> > I created this using one column as my example not realizing the other
> > columns dates were created at a later date and formatted differently. The
> > column I used the format was Number general. Another column is Number
> > -//1234 with a format code of #"/"##"/"#### ...
>
>
> The above technique should work with these values, too.
>
> > ... and another of Date 12/31/1999 format.
>
>
> Leave those as they are.
>
> You now have two obvious choices: either
> o Leave your values as normal spreadsheet dates and format the relevant
> cells as YYYY/MM/DD to show as you wish, or
> o Use a formula such as =TEXT(Xn;"YYYY/MM/DD") to derive an explicit text
> version of your values.
>
> I trust this helps.
>
> Brian Barkero this list will be publicly archived and cannot be
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HA! That worked!
You way was much easier than that long formula I did :D
Thanks for that. I very much appreciate it.

Wade
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