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How can I pull out the 1st date listed in the beginning of a cell of text.
(new entrys are put at the beginning of the cell)

Example: (BOND) 10/20/09 STMT & RE cr*9/21/09 stmt* ----(in Col A)

In the example above the newest date entry is always put at the beginning of
the cell and that is the date I want to extract in a separate column. (I
only want to pull out dates that have Month, Day and Year in the format
example 9/21/09)
A date is not always preceded by text.

In the example above what I would want to see is:

Column B: 10/20/09
Column C: (BOND) ----everything before the date
Column D: STMT & RE cr*9/21/09 stmt* ----everything after the date
If there is a worksheet function that will do that it would be great. If not
I can do a macro, but I am not that experienced with those, so if you could
lead me through I would appreciate it.
Donna