Macro to change text format to date format

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ThomasA83

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Hey,

Have a problem with my huge file with data. In column J I have dates, like 2010-10-13, but the format of the dates is text.
Do anyone know how to make a macro to convert the entire column J into date format, and should read "13-10-2010". If I go to each cell in column J, press F2 and enter, the field automatically changes to date format, but for 16000 rows, its gonna take me alot of time.

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Code: 
Sub ToDate()
    Dim c As Range
    For Each c In Range("J2:J" & Range("J" & Rows.Count).End(xlUp).Row)
        c.Value = CDate(c.Value)
    Next c
End Sub

Once done, you can adjust the format.

Denis
 
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Try selecting the dates, Data > Text to Columns, click Next twice, tick Date and select YMD then click Finish.
 
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Combining suggestions in posts #2 and #3 above you get:

Code: 
Sub ConvDates()
Columns("J:J").TextToColumns Destination:=Range("J1"), DataType:=xlDelimited, _
        TextQualifier:=xlDoubleQuote, ConsecutiveDelimiter:=False, Tab:=True, _
        Semicolon:=False, Comma:=False, Space:=False, Other:=False, FieldInfo _
        :=Array(1, 5), TrailingMinusNumbers:=True
End Sub
 
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