Crystle, This is also what I have been doing. However often I forget to do this step and I am left with reloading the file. What I was fishing for is a type conversion in OOo, similar to the format conversion. It would be great if one could convert a text to a number or to date or even to a formula or vise-versa.
Is it possible in OOo already? Pascal On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 07:02, Crystle Numan wrote: > On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 23:13 -0800, Pascal DeMilly wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am importing some CSV files where the datse are in text format either > > as YYMMDD or YYYYMMDD. How do I tell calc that those cells should be > > formatted as Date from a string after it has been imported? When I tried > > to use the date format it takes the text value as a numeral > > representation (possibly some Julian representation of a date) and gives > > me something completely different than expected. > > > > TIA > > > > Pascal > > Pascal: > > I was playing around with this and found something I never knew! > > When you import the csv, do you do Insert->Sheet? If you do, you will > get more options. > > Select from file, and then get your file. Go through and set your > delimiters, and then once the "preview" is showing near the bottom of > the dialog, click on the column that has your date field. Then you can > select in the drop box what format to use, and I think the one you want > is there (date YMD). > > This worked for me with both YYYY and YY. > > Is that what you needed? > > Crystle -- Pascal DeMilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
