Excel - Copy the displayed value not the actual value

Question

I am a pilot, and use a logbook program called Logten Pro. I have the ability to take excel spreadsheets saved from my work flight management software, and import them into

Answer 1

There are three options using formulas.

Rounddown

Excel stores the date time as a number and uses formatting to display it as a date. The format is date.time, where the integer is the date and the fraction is the time.

As an example 01/01/2012 10:30:00 PM is stored as 40909.9375

All the values after the decimal place relate to the hours and minutes

So a formula could be used to round the number down to a whole number.

=ROUNDDOWN(A1,0)

Then format the value as a short date. It will then display as 01/01/2012

INT

As above, but using a different formula to get rid of the fraction (time)

=INT(A1)

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Alternately the date only could be extracted as text using this formula

=TEXT(A1,"dd/mm/yyyy")

It will then display as 01/01/2012