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Excel VBA: Function to Obtain Correct Date Format When Converting Text to Date

Akuini

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Excel VBA: Function to Obtain Correct Date Format When Converting Text to Date - How to get date format as expected when converting text to date

Dealing with dates in VBA can be a bit tricky. When attempting to convert a string to a date, we may encounter unexpected results. The issues typically arise in the following ways:
- The day, month, and year might get swapped or changed unintentionally.
- What we typically consider as an incorrect date format may actually be considered valid by VBA.

My Windows date setting uses d-m-y format, so all examples below generate results base on that setting.

Example 1:
Using CDate, the day &...

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