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Luke M Luke M is offline
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Default splitting a cell in to three

If your data is entered as a true date, why not just change the formatting of
the cell? (use custom format)

If not, use
=SUBSTITUTE(A1,","," ")
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"RowzeRiot" wrote:

i have a list of dates 'DD,MM,YYYY' and i need to split the cells so that in
a new collum it has 'DD' 'MM' 'YYYY' i can understand how to put the day and
year into a new collum =left(A1,2) & =right(A1,4) but i cant work out how to
seperate the middle

should i delete the commas?

thanks in advance
Rose