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wayliff
 
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Default MID formula not extracting what I want.


I'm trying to extract the date from a cell using the MID formula and all
I'm getting is some weird number that does not seem to make sense.
I have tried formatting the target cell but still no change.

Any clues about it? How can I do this?


1/13/2006 12:16:29 AM

=MID(E5,1,9)

38730.011


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