Re: date conversion

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From: Bernie Deitrick (_at_)
Date: 09/21/04


Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:54:54 -0400

Duncan,

You will need to download John Walkenbach's extended date function from

http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/xdate.htm

You may also need to extract the parts of your date strings: try Data | Text
to columns... using the / as the delimiter.

HTH,
Bernie
MS Excel MVP

"Duncan Ross" <Duncan Ross@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1D645615-AA4C-4F70-AA16-AC4B437D84E0@microsoft.com...
> I have a problem that may require several steps to resolve. I have a
series
> of nineteenth century dates in dd/mm/yyyy format, (e.g. 23/04/1857) that I
> want to convert to serial numbers and perform some calculations with. I
> just can't seem to resolve this.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Duncan
>



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