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The problem
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You want to participate to a compensation survey.
They want year of birth info for your employees, in the format YY (ie “73” if the employee was born in 1973).
Your HR system produces data in the form : “26/05/73”
The solution
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Use “Text to Columns” (found under “Data” in Excel 2010) to separate the data in 3 columns : 26, 05 and 1973.
Then use “Text to Columns” again to split 1973 into 2 columns : 19 and 73.
You’re done ! No manual entry of data, no risk of error.
Step 2 – Select “Other” and enter the delimiter in your cell (here : /)
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Step 3 - Select a column to skip (if this data is not needed)
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Step 3 - Repeat if necessary, choose format of each column then click Finish
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Step 2 - Click on any unwanted delimiter to delete it
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Step 3 - Skip columns and/or format them as needed then click Finish
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Our end result : one new column with “73” as required (see column D)
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