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placerdog
Jan 01, 2019Copper Contributor
dates in excel
Can someone help with converting these dates into a format that I can sort from most recent. Although I have tried some functions but none work. Thanks
Yury Tokarev
Jan 02, 2019Iron Contributor
Hi,
I have noticed that your dates column contains two different ways of presenting a date. Provided that this this does not change, you can use a combination of IF, LEFT, RIGHT and MID functions together with YEAR, MONTH and DAY functions to extract day, month and year from the 'Date' column. Subsequently, you can use DATE function to reconstruct dates in the 'dates' format, which then can be sorted. Please find attached a solution ( I have converted the data to a table for an easier sort).
Thanks
Yury