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Default I want to take a date 2006/02/10 & break it into separate colu

Thank you very much!

cd

"Bernard Liengme" wrote:

Assuming the values are real dates formatted as yyyy/mm/dd:
use =YEAR(A1) = MONTH(A1) and =DAY(A1)

But if the entries are text:
=--LEFT(A1,2) , =--MID(A1,6,2), =--RIGHT(A1,2)
The double negation (that's the two signs after =) will convert text to
numbers.

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