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    Question Extract number data string from text

    Hi,
    My original data has 3 columns.
    The first column contains text, some of which is the following:
    Start Date/Time: 07/27/200822:26
    Start Date/Time: 07/28/2008 00:23

    The second column contains similar data to the first column, some of which is following:
    Stop Date/Time: 07/27/200822:50
    Stop Date/Time: 07/28/2008 01:23

    I would like excel to extract properly formatted date value in the new columns.
    To recap:
    My original data:
    Column 1

    Stop Date/Time: 07/27/200822:26
    Stop Date/Time: 07/28/2008 00:23

    column 2
    Start Date/Time: 07/27/200822:50
    Start Date/Time: 07/28/2008 01:23

    Modified spreadsheet:



    Column 1
    Start Date/Time: 07/27/200822:26
    Start Date/Time: 07/28/2008 00:23

    new column 1
    7/27/2008 22:26
    7/28/2008 00:23

    column 2
    Stop Date/Time: 07/27/200822:50
    Stop Date/Time: 07/28/2008 01:23

    New column 2
    7/27/2008 22:50
    7/28/2008 01:23

    I would appreciate any help.
    Thank you very much.
    Last edited by lamatao; 06-02-2009 at 11:14 AM.

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    Re: Extract number data string from text

    Try possibly:

    =(MID(A2,FIND(":",A2)+2,10)&" "&RIGHT(A2,5))+0

    where A2 contains string to convert...

    you may need to format result as Date/Time...
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    Re: Extract number data string from text

    Alternatively, if the lack of space between date & time in the example:

    Start Date/Time: 07/27/200822:26

    is a typo then you coudl run an Edit -> Replace over the data replacing:

    What: Start Date/Time:
    With: [nothing]

    Repeat for "Stop" column.

    The values should then coerce to date times.

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    Re: Extract number data string from text

    I assumed it wasn't a typo..

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    Re: Extract number data string from text

    Thank you very much, it worked!
    I have another problem.
    I import a lot of data from text files into Excel. Excel puts data in the single column.
    I would like to separate the data into 3 columns based on the content.
    I attached 2 files. One file that contains original data, another file shows an example how data should look like.
    Thank you very much.
    Attached Files Attached Files
    Last edited by lamatao; 06-03-2009 at 04:31 PM.

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