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Hi,
I am trying to covert text in a cell like this: Nov 23 2011 into a date formatted like this: mmm/d/yy
I've tried the datevalue and a few other things but I can't seem to get it to work
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Converting text to date
Hi,
I am trying to covert text in a cell like this: Nov 23 2011 into a date formatted like this: mmm/d/yy
I've tried the datevalue and a few other things but I can't seem to get it to work
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Last edited by wace; 11-28-2011 at 04:14 PM.
Have you tried using "Text to Columns" on the Data tab? First format the cells to mmmm/d/yy and then do text to columns>Fixed length> Next>Date>Finish
Does that work for you?
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Or this should work =SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",", ",2)+0 You can then copy/paste as values and delete the original column.
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Alternative, formula solution:
=TEXT(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",", ",2),"mmm/d/yy")
Hope that helps,
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Worked.
You're a legend!
I used the text to column approach, but tried the others and they work great too!
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