How to combine three cells to create date in Excel?
In this case, the day, month and year are in three columns separately, how can you combine the cells to create a standard date as below screenshot shown? Here, I introduce sme ways to quickly deal with this job in Excel worksheet.
Combine cells to make date with Combine
Date Format Creator aims to make working with dates a little bit easier by giving you a date formatter to test and experiment with. Enter your UTS date format, pick a date and see how an NSDateFormatter would convert it into a string. Amazing 2 9 14 16. Enter a date as a string and see if it's valid and becomes the date you're expecting. Aug 02, 2020 In this dialog box, you select 'Custom' in the Category list and write the date format code in 'Type'. To format a date, you just write the parameter d, m or y a different number of times. For example, dd/mm/yyyy will display the 1st of January 2016 as 01 Jan 2016. By entering the codes 1,2,3 or 4 times, the display will be different.
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Combine cells to make date with formula
Here is a formula that can quickly combine cells to a date.
Observe the formats in the location United Kingdom are different from the United States. Still, if you are not happy with the date formats, we can create our customized format. To create a customized format, select the Custom option from the Category box. Once we select the Custom category, we can input the required format in Type. Characters not listed above are normally treated as delimiters between date and time slots. For example a dt string of '1996-01-15T00:00:00.0' would have a format string like 'y-m-dTH:M:S.s'.
Select a cell that you will place the date, type this formula =DATE(A2,B2,C2) ,A2, B2 and C2 are the cells you need to combine, press Enter key, and drag fill handle down to the cells which need to combine to dates.
Tip: if the year is not complete, you can use this formula =DATE(20&A2,B2,C2).
Combine cells to make date with Combine
If you cannot remember the formula, you can use Kutools for Excel's Combine function to easily combine cells into dates.
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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:（Free Download Kutools for Excel Now!)
1. Select the cells you want to combine, click Kutools > Merge & Split > Combine Rows, Columns or Cells without Losing Data.
2. In the popping out dialog, please:
Check the Combine columns option;
Check the Other separator option and type / into the beside textbox;
Specify the place in the Place the results to section;
Check one option you want the result show in the Options section.
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3. Click Ok, the cells have been combined to dates.
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- To post as a guest, your comment is unpublished.when i doing this I did not get the correct date. month, date and year mixed they did not come to the correct place
