Comments on: Excel And Its Infuriating Date Rigmarole http://www.danielcwarshaw.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danielcwarshaw.com%2Fexcel-and-its-infuriating-date-rigmarole&seed_title=Excel+And+Its+Infuriating+Date+Rigmarole I'm a Christian leftist eccentric. You figure it out. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:36:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Adam http://www.danielcwarshaw.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danielcwarshaw.com%2Fexcel-and-its-infuriating-date-rigmarole&seed_title=Excel+And+Its+Infuriating+Date+Rigmarole/comment-page-1#comment-5503 Adam Sun, 11 May 2008 20:48:31 +0000 http://www.danielcwarshaw.com/?p=1019#comment-5503 I run into this problem alot when pasting things into powerpoint as it has another date formating issse (even more infuriating). This also works and cuts out the intermediate step. Create a formula =TEXT(, "MM/DD/YYYY") where ref is the date that you want to have. This formula should return a text field. I don't know how oracle takes dates, but excel has like 30 different ways and should have what you are looking for. This will allow you to keep from exiting and should generally make it easier to work with. I run into this problem alot when pasting things into powerpoint as it has another date formating issse (even more infuriating).

This also works and cuts out the intermediate step.

Create a formula =TEXT(, “MM/DD/YYYY”) where ref is the date that you want to have. This formula should return a text field. I don’t know how oracle takes dates, but excel has like 30 different ways and should have what you are looking for. This will allow you to keep from exiting and should generally make it easier to work with.

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