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Re: Check how date is entered

From	dpb <none@none.net>
Newsgroups	microsoft.public.excel.programming
Subject	Re: Check how date is entered
Date	2018-05-09 07:20 -0500
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On 5/8/2018 10:51 PM, GS wrote:
...

> Yeah, I don't have much use for Excel's built-in import feature. In 
> solutions where data gets imported from plain text files, the entire 
> process is managed by VB[A] because the import utility will nearly 
> almost always misinterpret the source data. (Or at very least, cannot be 
> trusted to interpret accurately left to its own!)
> 
> Now as for my VB6 apps using the fpSpread.ocx, this spreadsheet control 
> uses cell types so importing text source data is treated according to 
> its target cell. How that cell displays its data is determined by its 
> preset format. (The fpSpread.ocx does not support ConditionalFormatting 
> and so this has to be done programmatically when cell type formats are 
> not preset. In this control, date cells will optionally include a popup 
> calendar so numeric input is not part of the process entering the date 
> value because it knows which day of which month page you selected.) 
> Likewise, cell formats and/or types can be set programmatically before 
> the data is loaded into a worksheet.
> 
> This is, IMO, a better way to handle dates than Excel offers and so as 
> I'm able to reproduce here what Excel features are missing, so also can 
> I reproduce in Excel programmatically what it lacks.
...

OK, so essentially you throw the baby out with the bath water... :)

Yeah, w/o additional tools on the Excel end, I'd write "glue" code to do 
what I illustrated earlier, read the data with a tool I know I can 
control to import the given format correctly before stuffing it into 
Excel (your solution a different route in essence) _or_ use an 
intermediary filter to do the conversion separately before Excel.

Anyway, that confirms to me Excel is, in effect, broken when you can't 
do the above import without resorting to the external tool other than by 
the manual, change it every time, route.  Something to keep in mind if 
ever do get a call again for "real" work other than the (increasingly 
rare) call on the plant performance monitors for an update or the like...

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Check how date is entered jan120253@gmail.com - 2018-05-04 00:31 -0700
  Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-04 07:46 -0500
    Re: Check how date is entered "Auric__" <not.my.real@email.address> - 2018-05-04 15:55 +0000
      Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-04 12:43 -0500
        Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-04 17:37 -0400
          Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-04 18:49 -0500
            Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-04 21:42 -0400
              Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-04 23:46 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 04:21 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-05 07:21 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 09:50 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-05 09:05 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 10:33 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-05 10:57 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 20:51 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-05 11:32 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-05 21:19 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-06 07:46 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-06 09:37 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-06 20:37 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-06 19:53 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-06 21:03 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 00:06 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 03:14 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 07:45 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 13:06 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 13:53 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered malone <malone@nospam.net.nz> - 2018-05-08 08:19 +1200
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 15:35 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 17:38 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 17:26 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 00:19 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 01:31 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 07:45 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 09:45 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 14:34 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 14:09 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 17:06 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 13:48 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 15:02 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 14:59 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 17:04 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 18:53 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-08 21:12 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 23:51 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-09 07:20 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-09 11:32 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-09 11:35 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-09 15:03 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-09 15:18 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 13:34 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 13:44 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 17:40 -0400
                Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 17:50 -0500
                Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-08 00:02 -0400
  Re: Check how date is entered jan120253@gmail.com - 2018-05-07 01:45 -0700
    Re: Check how date is entered jan120253@gmail.com - 2018-05-07 01:52 -0700
      Re: Check how date is entered dpb <none@none.net> - 2018-05-07 08:16 -0500
        Re: Check how date is entered GS <gs@v.invalid> - 2018-05-07 13:10 -0400
  Re: Check how date is entered Ramon-México <cesaramon@gmail.com> - 2018-05-07 22:03 -0700

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