Is there a way to not type DATE formula manually?

Christina09

I have a sheet with the date as the column name and have a cross-sheet formula with SUMIFS and DATE. Is there a way I don't have to type the date manually? Unfortunately, I have over 100 columns that I need to modify the date to match the column 😥

You'll be a lifesaver if there is a way!

Thank you in advance!!🙇‍♀️

Andrée Starå

Hi @Christina Lam

I hope you're well and safe!

To add to Gia's excellent advice/answer.

Another option could be to export the sheet to Excel and copy and paste the row with the dates.

Would that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Gia Thinh

Hi @Christina Lam,

Yes, it's a big problem for you if the number of date columns increasing.

How do you think about re-contruction your sheet? I mean we can convert date columns to rows and rows to columns. It will save your time.

Christina09

Hi @Gia Thinh

I have a rollup sheet with parent and child rows. Don't think it'll work since I needed to compare the data by date for each row.

Thanks.

Gia Thinh

Hi @Christina Lam,

I got an idea that we add one row of string-formated date in the first row as below screenshot with formula to calculate date in the next cell.

Then we can you date-cell in the first row to do the comparison in the cell of next rows.

This is DATE formula to calculate date from the date-cell in the first row

DATE(VALUE(RIGHT([09/10/21]$1; 4)); VALUE(LEFT([09/10/21]$1; 2)); VALUE(MID([09/10/21]$1; 4; 2)))

Hope that helps.

Christina09

@Gia Thinh

This is a great idea, but it wouldn't work for next month and the month after and so on.

Andrée Starå

Hi @Christina Lam

I hope you're well and safe!

To add to Gia's excellent advice/answer.

Another option could be to export the sheet to Excel and copy and paste the row with the dates.

Would that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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Christina09

@Andrée Starå

Thank you, I don't know why I never thought of that. That is a great way, works like a charm. 👍️😀

Source sheet:

I've also modified my linking sheet by adding a text type of date column. So it would pull the information in the other sheet.

My question is: I have W/E column as Date column, and Texting weekending as a helper column in text/number. Currently, I have a column formula to convert the W/E Date to text:

=LEFT([W/E]@row, 2) + "/" + VALUE(MID([W/E]@row, 4, 2)) + "/" + RIGHT([W/E]@row, 2)

The problem is that if the day is a single digit, it wouldn't convert it to MM/DD/YY like W/E column. see highlight below for reference.

Could you please guide me?

Thanks.

Christina09

Solved!! a simple formula like this will work 🤣 =[W/E]@row + ""

Andrée Starå

@Christina Lam

Excellent!

Glad you got it working!

I'm always happy to help!