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Need to capture date data in a text string containing a date and time stamp

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    Need to capture date data in a text string containing a date and time stamp

    Hello -

    I have a worksheet with a column that contains a date and time stamp (see example below). What I need to do is get rid of the time stamp leaving just the date information. I tried the formula =Left but because the number of characters in the date vary, this formula does quite work.

    Example of what I have:

    2/1/2013 10:41
    12/21/2012 12:03

    This is what I want:

    2/1/2013
    12/21/2012

    Thanks in advance for the help!

    Grilleman

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    Re: Need to capture date data in a text string containing a date and time stamp

    assuming the date is in A1, you could try this:
    =LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1)-1)

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    Re: Need to capture date data in a text string containing a date and time stamp

    Hi Grilleman

    Can you not just format as mm/dd/yyyy
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