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Excel Text Date to Real Date 1

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rnordquest

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Jul 17, 2003
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How would I reformat a text date to make it a real date? It's in the form 14May2008 right now but in a plot it's just 1 and the next date is 2.
 
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Some more intel - the date is really in this form " 14May 2008". It's got a couple spaces in front. I guess I need a macro to change them all.
 
[tt]=DATEVALUE(" 14May2008")[/tt]

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Joerd

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The problem is not the date, it's your chart type. Right click the chart and select XY (Scatter) instead of the default Line chart.



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Joerd is right. It's already in a scatter chart.

Thanks guys.
 
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