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    Hi team,

    Thank you for your help in the past. I would really appreciate some insight here as I have been exporting from a system which provides date and time like this, all in one cell:

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    6/10/2019 9:21

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    Date
    6/10/2019

    Time
    9:21

    As you can see, a simple =Mid or =Find function may not work, because the Month could be 6 or 10, for June or October, and the time could be 17:00 or 9:00.

    Please advise! (attached a csv as well)

    Thank you again,
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    Re: Parse a date+time field into separate date and time cells

    Welcome to the forum.

    In C2:

    =A2

    formatted as short date (on the Home Ribbon - drop-down)

    In D2:

    =A2

    formatted as time (on the Home Ribbon - drop-down)
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    Re: Parse a date+time field into separate date and time cells

    Insert two columns to the right of the current data.

    In B1 =INT('date fixer'!$A2) formatted as a short date and copy down

    in C1 ='date fixer'!$A2-INT('date fixer'!$B2) formatted as Time and copied down

    Do the same for the former column B
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    Re: Parse a date+time field into separate date and time cells

    I know its a manual way, but can you find and replace your space between your time and date and replace it with say, 4 spaces, then do a data split?

    so you find (without quotations) " " and replace with "5 spaces" (no quotations again and it was only showing one in my post, but 5 spaces not the words) this should space things out for you, then...

    Data tab - Text to Column - Split fixed width spaces - insert a break after your date length (2-3 spaces in should do the trick this way your date and time are not affected by the split)

    And insert in to new column.

    Didn't see alan's post that may be a better way to go about it...

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    Re: Parse a date+time field into separate date and time cells

    In Excel Datetime is expressed as DateValue.TimeValue.

    Meaning 1 = 1 day = 24 hours. 1/24 = 1 hour.

    So...
    =INT(Datetime)
    Will return date value.
    =MOD(Datetime, 1)
    Will return time value.

    Format each cell as Date & time respectively.
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    Re: Parse a date+time field into separate date and time cells

    Thanks all.

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    Re: Parse a date+time field into separate date and time cells

    If that takes care of your original question, please select Thread Tools from the menu link above and mark this thread as SOLVED. Thanks.

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