Date in a text field copied wrongly into destination file (month

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Wed 15 Jul 2015, 12:22 Delegate Susanna said...

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Date in a text field copied wrongly into destination file (month

I have dates in an array, to be moved to destination file. These dates are characters, and when I move them to final file, the month becomes the day and the day becomes the month, that is:
"01/07/2015" goes into the final file as
07/01/2015

I've tried various things, being the last one Dateserial funtion, but I still get the wrong data:

Dim vConvDate As Date

vConvDate = DateSerial(Val(Year(vWorkTable(i, Val(j)))), Val(Month(vWorkTable(i, Val(j)))), Val(Day(vWorkTable(i, Val(j)))))
Cells(vIndex, vColDB) = vConvDate

Can you please tell me what is the problem?

Thank you very much

Mon 20 Jul 2015, 10:25 Trainer Jens said...

RE: Date in a text field copied wrongly into destination file (m

Hi Susanna,

Thank you for the forum question.

Yes date formats can be a complicated thing to get right in Excel. I have had many questions about date formatting.

Many times when we import data from external data source we have the problem also sometimes when it is internal data.

Can I ask you to try the code below where the only thing you need to amend is the range. In my code I reformat column A.

Sub dateformat()

Dim c As Range
For Each c In ActiveSheet.UsedRange.Columns("a").Cells
c.Value = DateValue(c.Value)
Next c
End Sub

If it is not doing the job please let me know.

Kind regards

Jens Bonde
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Fri 18 Sep 2015, 15:16 Delegate Susanna said...

RE: Date in a text field copied wrongly into destination file (m

Hi Jens,

sorry for the delay in checking it!

I have tried what you suggested and it does not work either.

Kind regards,
Susanna

Mon 27 Jul 2015: Automatically marked as resolved.

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