“A1:A22” is the list of dates in which we are searching. “E1” is the date for which we are going to search in the list of dates. This formula calls the “vlookup” function. Here’s what I put into my formula: =VLOOKUP(E1,A1:A22,1,0) In the cell just to the right of where I inserted the date I want to search for, I added my vlookup formula.
You can see in this spreadsheet, I inserted a date to search for in my list of dates: To find a date in a list of dates, the value you are searching for also has to be a date in the Date format – ideally, they should be formatted identically. Obviously, if you’re working with dates, then the format for the cells should be “Date” and whatever specific date format you want: To check the format of a cell, all you need to do is right-click on it and select “Format Cells” (or Format -> Cells from the menus at the top of the screen): That is the key to making vlookup work with dates. LibreOffice needs to know the “format” of a cell. For instance, it’s pretty challenging to do numerical calculations with text (e.g., “apple” + 65 = ?).
This is important because LibreOffice will treat cells with different formats differently. Cells can be formatted as numbers, as text, as dates, etc. It’s important to make clear at this point that LibreOffice Calc, just like other spreadsheet software, has different “formats” for cells. To illustrate this, I created a spreadsheet and inserted a bunch of dates: The issue with dates has to do with the format of the cells. Then come back here to see how this works with dates.
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So, if you want to learn how to use VLookup, first go to that previous post.
It turns out, it does, but… There is a slight tweak required to make it work. Someone commented on that post and indicated that it didn’t work with dates. THIS WILL GIVE YOU THE LIST OF DATES IMPORTED INTO YOUR EXCEL FILE IN THE REQUIRED FORMAT.In a different post on this blog, I showed how to use Vlookup to match lists. Then, click on cell 2 of the column in your excel where you want to put the dates. Now, go back to your list of dates in your text file and select them all and copy them to your clipboard.ħ.
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In my case, I selected Category Date and then Format Dec 1999 and the format code is MMM YYYY.Ħ. If the format you want doesn’t exist, you can create it as a user defined format. From the dropdown menu select “Format Cells”.ĥ. Right click over the column heading where you want to insert the list of dates.Ĥ. Cancel all the dates in your excel fileģ. Copy all your list of dates into a text file and save it using a program like xed.Ģ. TO CONVERT THE CELLS TO YOUR FORMAT, DO THE FOLLOWING:ġ. Suppose you have a list of dates in an excel like:. Here is how to convert a list of dates in the wrong format to the format you want. Probably I’m stupid, but I found all these replies incomprehensible. To format time, use below format codes: Formatĭrop a comment, if you have any questions/suggestions. German, you need to use a different code as per below. If you change your locale of LibreOffice e.g. Number of the year within an era, with a leading zero for single-digit years Number of the year within an era, without a leading zero for single-digit years FormatĮra on the Japanese Gengou calendar, single character (possible values are: M, T, S, H) List of Date Format Codesīelow are the format codes for dates that you can use in formatting cells. The same principle can be applied to Time formats as well.
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