Date format isn't correct when you convert a CSV text file in Excel by using a VBA macro

• Applies to:

  Microsoft Excel

Symptoms

When you use a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macro to convert a Comma-Separated Values (CSV) text file into a Microsoft Office Excel workbook (*.xls), the format of dates that are converted into your Excel workbook may not be correct.

For example, in your CSV file, dates may be in the format of:

dd/mm/yyyy

When you run the following macro to convert your CSV text file into Excel,

VB

Sub test()

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:="C:\Test1.csv", DataType:=xlDelimited, _
      TextQualifier:=xlTextQualifierNone, FieldInfo:=Array(1, 4)

End Sub

dates may be converted in the following format:

mm/dd/yyyy

Resolution

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VB

Sub test()

Workbooks.OpenText Filename:="C:\Test1.csv", DataType:=xlDelimited, _
      TextQualifier:=xlTextQualifierNone, FieldInfo:=Array(1, 4), Local:=True

End Sub