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Change month only in a column containing several rows of dates
If you select all your dates before Ctrl+H when Replace All shall work, otherwise find (and replace) one by one
Hi John,
If we speak only about Jan to Feb, not every month in dates on next one, I'd first apply to your dates custom format
mm/d/yyyy
when Ctrl+H and replace 01/ on 02/
- I use Excel to keep track of my monthly spending and had the same question about easily changing the month.
To explain for other beginners:
My workbook has a sheet for each month, just so I don't have to do a lot of scrolling. Each month I copy and paste to create a new sheet. Then I have to manually change the due date for each item on my sheet (rent, cable, groceries, etc.)
This is such an easy solution, why didn't I think to do this! It worked wonderfully.
thx Sergei I tried to replace jan to feb. (ex. 1/1/19 to 2/1/19). When doing so, the day also changed to 2? I only want to change the month. using 1/ to 2/ will also change the day if it has 1/. How can I only change the month using the replace function?
Thanks, but Find and Replace won't work because I have several dates within the column.
If you select all your dates before Ctrl+H when Replace All shall work, otherwise find (and replace) one by one
SergeiBaklan, have tried these solutions, I do see some changes, but for the case where I have different months on same sheet, and desire to change only a month in a single column, containing a range of dates, it happens that both the dates changes (in two months, including undesired one. Even though only the desired column was selected)
*Changed a month on September to October on numeral dates accidentally and unable to undo it
