office76#xt wrote
Hi,
I have a column of dates in Calc that look like this:
01.07.1986
...
Any way to reformat the Date column into some Date format that would allow
conditional formatting as just described? Any ideas welcome.
Given 01.07.1986 in cell A1 these entries in the indicated cells will give
you a valid date:
- in B1 =LEFT(A1;SEARCH("[0-9]\.";A1)) will return the day "01".
- in C1 =RIGHT(A1;LEN(A1)-SEARCH("\.";A1)) will return the remaining data
"07.1986".
- in D1 =LEFT(C1;SEARCH("[0-9]\.";C1)) will return the month "07".
- in E1 =RIGHT(C1;LEN(C1)-SEARCH("\.";C1)) will return the year "1986".
- in F1 =DATE(E1;D1;B1) will provide a valid date, which can be formatted as
required.
You can then copy column F data over column A (paste special > Selection of
"Date & time") and delete the other (now unnecessary) columns as required.
Best wishes, Owen.
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