Title: Importing Date
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Importing Date

 *  Resolved [allgorite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allgorite/)
 * (@allgorite)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-date/)
 * Hi there
 * I want to import a date. Format: 2014-06-02
    This should end up in ONE cell. 
   But currently tablepress import splits it in three columns. What can I do? I 
   guess tablepress understand “-” as a separator.
 * Thanks for support,
    Frank
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/)

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 *  Thread Starter [allgorite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allgorite/)
 * (@allgorite)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-date/#post-4967032)
 * Update:
 * Issue is solved: There was no “;” at the end of the data field.
    Seems like tablepress
   looks for a different separator if there is no “;”. The import of 2014-06-02;
   works.
 * Thanks,
    Frank
 *  Plugin Author [Tobias Bäthge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobiasbg/)
 * (@tobiasbg)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-date/#post-4967058)
 * Hi,
 * thanks for your post, and sorry for the trouble.
 * Great to hear that you were already able to solve this! Yes, the CSV importer
   by default tries to find a delimiter automatically, simply because a table (usually)
   has more than one column. The `;` is preferred, but as there wasn’t one in your
   first tries, it went back to the `-` which was the most common character in the
   table.
 * Best wishes,
    Tobias
 * P.S.: In case you haven’t, please [rate TablePress](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/tablepress)
   here in the plugin directory. Thanks!

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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/importing-date/#post-4967058)
 * Status: resolved