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    VBA to extract dates and times from text string and calculate difference

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    Is it possible to make a macro that extracts a specific date and time from a text string and calculate the difference between a start date and time. Then it proceeds to loop through the string and locate the next specific date and time occurence and extract first found occurence from this one? see the data below

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    So i have the column A and B where A is my starting point and B reports a list of incidents. I would like to find the time between my starting point and the first incident and then print that difference in column C. Followed by the time between incident 1 and incident 2 in column D and so forth for as many incidents as there might be. The incident report might contain random text and have different shapes but the date/time format is always the same. There is however the issue that there might be other notes in the incident report that also have a time stamp..... Like the random note in the picture. These are not to be considered. Incidents are only uniqe by their incident stamp in the end of the text string. The difference between incidents is calculated in minutes. Help would be very much appreciated, since im quite lost on how to do it

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    Re: VBA to extract dates and times from text string and calculate difference

    Sorry about that. Here is the link

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    Re: VBA to extract dates and times from text string and calculate difference

    This is how I read your problem.
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    Re: VBA to extract dates and times from text string and calculate difference

    Thank you very much for the reply Jindon

    I get the following error code, when trying to run: "Run-time error '429': ActiveX component can't create object"

    Can it be because im on a Mac?

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    Re: VBA to extract dates and times from text string and calculate difference

    Quote Originally Posted by magge View Post
    Can it be because im on a Mac?
    Correct.
    Try this one
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