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I'm having trouble changing to date format. I have cells containing different dates but not all of them are formatted as date. One of them is "yy-mm-dd", for example "13-04-08", but it is formatted as General. I'm using this code: <pre><code>xCell = Format(xCell, "yyyy-mm-dd") </code></pre> Problem is that excel cannot tell if "13" or "08" is the "yyyy" so it doesn't change anything. How do I solve this? Do I need to tell excel which numbers are year before it changes the date, and how do I do that? Can it be included in the Format method? EDIT: I think I need to explain the whole thing as the problem seems to lay somewhere else. The cells containing the dates look like this from start, being formatted as General: <pre><code>13-05-06 A 13-05-21 A ... </code></pre> I remove the unwanted 'A' with this code: <pre><code>Sub rensa() Dim Found As Range For Each xCell In Range("D2:D999") If IsEmpty(xCell.Value) Then Exit For Set Found = xCell.Find(What:="A", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlPart) If Found Is Nothing Then Else xCell.Value = Left(xCell.Value, Len(xCell.Value) - 1) End If Next xCell End Sub </code></pre> I have tried these codes to set the cell format to date: <pre><code>Range("D2:D999").NumberFormat = "yyyy-mm-dd" Range("D2:D999").NumberFormat = "m/d/yyyy" </code></pre> I have also tried to implement them in the For loop like this: <pre><code>Sub rensa() Dim Found As Range For Each xCell In Range("D2:D999") If IsEmpty(xCell.Value) Then Exit For Set Found = xCell.Find(What:="A", LookIn:=xlValues, LookAt:=xlPart) If Found Is Nothing Then xCell.NumberFormat = "yyyy-mm-dd" Else xCell.Value = Left(xCell.Value, Len(xCell.Value) - 1) xCell.NumberFormat = "yyyy-mm-dd" End If Next xCell End Sub </code></pre> But that didn't work as I wanted either. Everything makes the result look like this, still formatted as General: <pre><code>13-05-06 13-05-21 ... </code></pre> So the A is gone, but nothing else changes.
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