I have come across a challenging task which I am not able to solve using many workarounds.
In one column I have dates, the date can be in following three formats:
1) Simple dd/mm/yy
2) dd/mm/yy but may have words "before,after or about" around it. Any one of it and we just need to delete those words in this case.
3) Date in a numeric format. A long decimal values like 1382923.2323 but actually I can get a date from it after conversion.
The file is uploaded here. Date_format_macro_link
I wrote the following code but it's giving wrong results.
Sub FormatDates_Mine()
ManualSheet.Activate
ManualSheet.Cells.Hyperlinks.Delete
ManualSheet.Cells.Interior.ColorIndex = xlNone
ManualSheet.Cells.Font.Color = RGB(0, 0, 0)
lastRow = ManualSheet.Range("A" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row
Col = "A"
For i = 2 To lastRow
Cells(i, Col) = Trim(Replace(Cells(i, Col), vbLf, "", 1, , vbTextCompare))
If InStr(1, Cells(i, Col), "about", vbTextCompare) <> 0 Then
Cells(i, Col) = Trim(Replace(Cells(i, Col), "about", "", 1, , vbTextCompare))
Cells(i, Col).Interior.Color = RGB(217, 151, 149)
End If
If InStr(1, Cells(i, Col), "after", vbTextCompare) <> 0 Then
Cells(i, Col) = Trim(Replace(Cells(i, Col), "after", "", 1, , vbTextCompare))
Cells(i, Col).Interior.Color = RGB(228, 109, 10)
End If
If InStr(1, Cells(i, Col), "before", vbTextCompare) <> 0 Then
Cells(i, Col) = Trim(Replace(Cells(i, Col), "before", "", 1, , vbTextCompare))
Cells(i, Col).Interior.Color = RGB(228, 109, 10)
End If
DateParts = Split(Cells(i, Col), "/", , vbTextCompare)
Cells(i, Col) = Format(Cells(i, Col), "dd/mm/yyyy")
Next i
Range("D:E").HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter
End Sub
The file is uploaded here. Date_format_macro_link
Please help!