Changing aa.bb.yy formatted dates to dd/mm/yyyy

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I have a spreadsheet in Excel where there are several entries in a date column input formatted as aa.bb.yy.



How can I change these to dd/mm/yyyy?



I haven't had any success so far with using Excel's regular date formatting functions as the aa.bb.yy input isn't being recognised as a date.




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  • You need to create a custom date format.
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    You should probably specify what you mean by aa.bb.yy format? dd.mm.yy? mm.dd.yy?
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I have a spreadsheet in Excel where there are several entries in a date column input formatted as aa.bb.yy.



How can I change these to dd/mm/yyyy?



I haven't had any success so far with using Excel's regular date formatting functions as the aa.bb.yy input isn't being recognised as a date.




microsoft-excel




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  • You need to create a custom date format.
    – Tyson
    Aug 28 at 10:45






  • 2




    You should probably specify what you mean by aa.bb.yy format? dd.mm.yy? mm.dd.yy?
    – Marie
    Aug 28 at 15:31












up vote
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up vote
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I have a spreadsheet in Excel where there are several entries in a date column input formatted as aa.bb.yy.



How can I change these to dd/mm/yyyy?



I haven't had any success so far with using Excel's regular date formatting functions as the aa.bb.yy input isn't being recognised as a date.




microsoft-excel




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I have a spreadsheet in Excel where there are several entries in a date column input formatted as aa.bb.yy.



How can I change these to dd/mm/yyyy?



I haven't had any success so far with using Excel's regular date formatting functions as the aa.bb.yy input isn't being recognised as a date.





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  • You need to create a custom date format.
    – Tyson
    Aug 28 at 10:45






  • 2




    You should probably specify what you mean by aa.bb.yy format? dd.mm.yy? mm.dd.yy?
    – Marie
    Aug 28 at 15:31
















  • You need to create a custom date format.
    – Tyson
    Aug 28 at 10:45






  • 2




    You should probably specify what you mean by aa.bb.yy format? dd.mm.yy? mm.dd.yy?
    – Marie
    Aug 28 at 15:31















You need to create a custom date format.
– Tyson
Aug 28 at 10:45




You need to create a custom date format.
– Tyson
Aug 28 at 10:45




2




2




You should probably specify what you mean by aa.bb.yy format? dd.mm.yy? mm.dd.yy?
– Marie
Aug 28 at 15:31




You should probably specify what you mean by aa.bb.yy format? dd.mm.yy? mm.dd.yy?
– Marie
Aug 28 at 15:31










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If the format order is identical to your native date format, then you could use the standard text replace function (Ctrl+H), replace the . by - and Excel will re-parse them automatically.



Before replace:



enter image description here



After:
enter image description here



If it is not, then you can use DATEVALUE and other functions to extract the date components separately and combine them in the proper format.



Example: if xx.xx.yy is actually mm.dd.yy, then you can do:



=DATEVALUE("20"&RIGHT(A2,2)&"-"&LEFT(A2,2)&"-"&MID(A2,4,2))


This uses the YYYY-MM-DD format, which is platform- and region-independent. You'll get the raw (int) value though, so you'll need to choose the cell format manually, but after that it'll work.






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If the format order is identical to your native date format, then you could use the standard text replace function (Ctrl+H), replace the . by - and Excel will re-parse them automatically.



Before replace:



enter image description here



After:
enter image description here



If it is not, then you can use DATEVALUE and other functions to extract the date components separately and combine them in the proper format.



Example: if xx.xx.yy is actually mm.dd.yy, then you can do:



=DATEVALUE("20"&RIGHT(A2,2)&"-"&LEFT(A2,2)&"-"&MID(A2,4,2))


This uses the YYYY-MM-DD format, which is platform- and region-independent. You'll get the raw (int) value though, so you'll need to choose the cell format manually, but after that it'll work.






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up vote
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down vote



accepted










If the format order is identical to your native date format, then you could use the standard text replace function (Ctrl+H), replace the . by - and Excel will re-parse them automatically.



Before replace:



enter image description here



After:
enter image description here



If it is not, then you can use DATEVALUE and other functions to extract the date components separately and combine them in the proper format.



Example: if xx.xx.yy is actually mm.dd.yy, then you can do:



=DATEVALUE("20"&RIGHT(A2,2)&"-"&LEFT(A2,2)&"-"&MID(A2,4,2))


This uses the YYYY-MM-DD format, which is platform- and region-independent. You'll get the raw (int) value though, so you'll need to choose the cell format manually, but after that it'll work.






share|improve this answer






















  • The first solution works. Thank you
    – Danger Fourpence
    Aug 28 at 11:20












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up vote
8
down vote



accepted






If the format order is identical to your native date format, then you could use the standard text replace function (Ctrl+H), replace the . by - and Excel will re-parse them automatically.



Before replace:



enter image description here



After:
enter image description here



If it is not, then you can use DATEVALUE and other functions to extract the date components separately and combine them in the proper format.



Example: if xx.xx.yy is actually mm.dd.yy, then you can do:



=DATEVALUE("20"&RIGHT(A2,2)&"-"&LEFT(A2,2)&"-"&MID(A2,4,2))


This uses the YYYY-MM-DD format, which is platform- and region-independent. You'll get the raw (int) value though, so you'll need to choose the cell format manually, but after that it'll work.






share|improve this answer














If the format order is identical to your native date format, then you could use the standard text replace function (Ctrl+H), replace the . by - and Excel will re-parse them automatically.



Before replace:



enter image description here



After:
enter image description here



If it is not, then you can use DATEVALUE and other functions to extract the date components separately and combine them in the proper format.



Example: if xx.xx.yy is actually mm.dd.yy, then you can do:



=DATEVALUE("20"&RIGHT(A2,2)&"-"&LEFT(A2,2)&"-"&MID(A2,4,2))


This uses the YYYY-MM-DD format, which is platform- and region-independent. You'll get the raw (int) value though, so you'll need to choose the cell format manually, but after that it'll work.







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