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I have a spreadsheet where dates are true text strings such as February 25 2015 (no punctuation) and I want to reformat them to actual date formats so I can sort accordingly.
I have a spreadsheet where dates are true text strings such as February 25 2015 (no punctuation) and I want to reformat them to actual date formats so I can sort accordingly.
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If you want to do this to the column that the dates are in...
Highlight the range
click Text2Columns on the Data tab
select delimited/Next/Next
select Date and change format if needed
click Finished
If you want to do this in a helper column, assuming your date is in A1...
=DATEVALUE(LEFT(A1,SEARCH(" ",A1,SEARCH(" ",A1,1)+1)-1))
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Ford
Or this
=SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(MONTH(1&LEFT(A1,3))&" "&RIGHT(A1,7))," ","/")+0
format cell as Date
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