Intermediate level information
I recently downloaded and opened a CSV file from a web browser and one of the data columns was supposed to have date information. There was date-type information, but Excel recognized it as being a text field. I really needed a valid date range for graphing purposes, so I used the Text to Columns feature …
I have a Lose It! app on my iPhone that automatically backs up data to my web account. The website makes it easy to download reports using CSV files, essentially giving you a file with the raw data. A lot of programs export data using comma separated values, known as CSV files because of the …
There are times when generating a list of dates comes in handy. Perhaps you need to log something every day for an entire year. Or maybe you’re tracking stock prices and want to skip the weekend and only use weekday dates. How about a list of dates for each week of the year? Or just …
Microsoft Excel has two different date systems that you will probably never think about because they exist in two different worlds: Windows or Mac. However, if you are sharing Excel files between Windows and Mac computers the potential exists for a great deal of confusion around dates. What is a Date System? Dates are represented …