need help to change text to date format in 1 or more cells

Hey There,

the texts are stored in a column. Whats the easiest function(s) to convert the following text format into date format. =date() requires year,month and date but i can't figure out how to extract them. (esp the month)

"30-SEP-07 12:00:00 AM"

"JUN 30 2010 12:00:00 AM"

reason is because i need to sort a column of dates but they are currently stored in text.


helpplease!

Enter 1 in an empty cell.

Copy the cell

Select the range of data you want to convert.

Edit > Paste Special > Multiply > OK

Format the range as a date.

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