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I have an excel sheet with a date/time column and the date in the background/formula bar that looks like "2/22/2007  6:01:43 AM". I formatted the cells to look like "02-22-2007 06:01:43". The problem is, despite how I formatted the cell, when I import the excel file into my listview it looks like "20070222060143". This causes a problem because when I go to export the file again, it will mess everything up and give me a character count issue in the cell and make the file so it can't be imported again.

How can I fix this? Why is the date cell messing up like this instead of importing it the way it is? Or is this simply how this would work for some reason?

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That's an Excel limitation.
Maybe _DateTimeFormat helps to format the date to your liking?

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yeah, I saw that. I wanted to avoid cycling through the entire array/listview to change how it looks, and then I have to bother with the "/", ":" and space character insertions to get what I want. So I don't think the date functions will work, I'll have to come up with something else. I'm just concerned of the overall time it will take. Oh well.

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Let do Excel the translation (and assume that column A holds the date/time values):
I added a new column and inserted the following formula (German System): =TEXT(A1;"MM/TT/JJJJ HH:MM:SS". Then copied this formula to all cells in the new column based on the last cell in column A.
You now have the correctly formated date/time in this new column for all values in column A.
Use _Excel_RangeRead for this new column to get the date in the format you need.

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Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki
ExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts
OutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki
OutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - Download
Outlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki
PowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - Wiki
Task Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki

Standard UDFs:
Excel - Example Scripts - Wiki
Word - Wiki

Tutorials:
ADO - Wiki
WebDriver - Wiki

 

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