On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:20 -0500, Victor Chapman wrote: > Victor Chapman wrote: > > I have imported a table of health care benefits received into calc. > > One of the columns is headed "Service Date." Originally the dates were > > text. They are all in the form DD MMM YYYY ( e.g.10 FEB 2005). I > > applied a user defined format to this column so that calc would > > recognize the data as dates and not text. This does not seemed to have > > worked. When I do the sort, it only sorts on DD and ignores the rest. > > So where do I go from here. > > > > TIA > The original column of dates was imported as text. I think that I need > to format the column as containing dates, but I also need to go through > a conversion, perhaps of the original text dates to give them a date > value. I don't know how to do this.
Okay. When you highlight a cell in your spreadsheet does the Forumula toolbar display the date in the following format 31/10/2006? If it does then you have formatted the cell correctly. If not, then you will have to see if the format you specified is actually in use. I tested with a date format of D MMM YYYY -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
