Thread: [Solved] Date formatting
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Old 08-12-2011, 10:29 AM
kjxavier kjxavier is offline Windows XP Office 2007
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Default Date Formatting

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Originally Posted by Catalin.B View Post
columns D and AD in sheet 1 are formatted as text. You should format these columns as date, and if necessary, reenter data, because in AD1, there is a text: "Nov-09" !! this is just a piece of text to excel, cannot recognize it as a date...There is no way excel can recognize it as 11/3/2009...( Nov can be recognized as month 11, but the day does not appear in that text ). in you file sheet1 reatached, i reformatted columns D and AD, and reentered 11/3/2009 in AD1. You should have no errors now..

tell me if you need further assistance in automatic reformatting and reentering existing data if you have a large number of rows...
That file looks fine
Thanks a lot for dat..

1. Now, how did you re format the field. (i really appreciate a step by step procedure from you) Becoz am not an expert in excel. I tried right click and format but it is not getting effected.


2. As you mentioned i have very large number of rows(4000). Reentering will be difficult task.

so, how do i do it.
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