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  1. 03-16-2016, 03:29 PM #1
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    Extracting Date from text and formatting to date

    Hello all!

    I'm working with a report where data is all formatted as text. I need to extract the date out of a string of text, and then format it to be a date. Example: Cell C4 "Joe Smith Statement Period: Feb 08 2016-Mar 07 2016".

    I can separate the actual numbers out, but excel doesn't recognize them as dates. Here are the formulas that I'm using / have tried.

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    - returns "Feb 08 2016"

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    - returns "Mar 07 2016"

    These three all work great. However, simply changing the formatting of the cell to date doesn't do anything. So I tried the following formulas to change the text to date.

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    None of these are working, they all return an error of "#VALUE".

    Any ideas?
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    Re: Extracting Date from text and formatting to date

    Enter formula in D4 and copy across

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    Format cells D4 and E4 as Date.

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    Re: Extracting Date from text and formatting to date

    The issue is that Excel only sees it as a date if there is a comma between the day and year. These formulas should work for you (I made them a little more versatile.

    In D4 (date range as text)
    =TRIM(RIGHT(C4, LEN(C4)-FIND(":",C4)))

    In E4 (first date)
    =SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(LEFT(D4, SEARCH("-",D4)-1))," ", ", ",2)+0

    In F4 (second date)
    =SUBSTITUTE(TRIM(MID(D4, FIND("-",D4)+1,50))," ", ", ", 2)+0
    Does that work for you?
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    Re: Extracting Date from text and formatting to date

    Perfect solution! Thanks.
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