read date from xls file

[george brida]

Dear Octavers,

I have a xlsx file called gffft (attached) containing two columns: the first a date column under the format  mm/dd/yyyy and the second column is reserved for the values of a series.  I would like to read the date column and plot the series where the x-axis is the date column but rather in the following format: dd-mmm-yyyy.

Many thanks in advance for your help

George

gffft.xlsx
Description: MS-Excel 2007 spreadsheet