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Creating a Date from Source Name
Currently combining multiple excel docs with the date in the name of the excel file eg: 2018 Capex Projects - February Forcast.xlsx Would like to make a column that can be used to identify th...
Anonymous,
Create the following columns in your table.Month = if(search("january",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,01,if(search("february",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,02,if(search("march",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,03,if(search("april",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,04,if(search("may",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,05,if(search("june",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,06,if(search("july",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,07,if(search("august",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,08,if(search("september",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,09,if(search("october",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,10,if(search("november",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,11,if(search("December",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,12))))))))))))Year = LEFT([Source.Name],4)
YearMonth = [Month]&"/"&[Year]
Regards,
Lydia
Anonymous,
Create the following columns in your table.
Month = if(search("january",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,01,if(search("february",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,02,if(search("march",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,03,if(search("april",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,04,if(search("may",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,05,if(search("june",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,06,if(search("july",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,07,if(search("august",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,08,if(search("september",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,09,if(search("october",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,10,if(search("november",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,11,if(search("December",[Source.Name],1,0)>0,12))))))))))))
Year = LEFT([Source.Name],4)
YearMonth = [Month]&"/"&[Year]
Regards,
Lydia