2017 Q1 to 1/1/2017

Just out of curiosity, is there a way (through VBA or a formula) to take text such as "[Year] [Quarter]" and change it to a short date?

the text derives from the below formula where F2 is a short date. Then this is converted to text on another worksheet. I know it sounds a bit weird (why can't you just use the original date, etc.), but for all intents and purposes lets just assume the short date is lost.

=YEAR(F2)&" "&"Q"&ROUNDUP(MONTH(F2)/3,0)

Requested outcome:

Typing "2017 Q1, 2017 Q2, etc." into cells A1:etc. would turn into "1/1/2017, 4/1/2017, etc." in cells A2:etc.

Think it's possible?

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