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Date formatting from text
works a treat - thanks!
"JE McGimpsey" wrote: One way: =--SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"st",""),"nd", ""),"th","") Format as a date. In-place: Do three Edit/Replaces (i.e., replace st, nd and th with nothing). In article , morlo wrote: I have a rather large spreadsheet where someone has input the date as text eg. 12th January 2004, and 2nd April 2001. Is there a simple way that I can get this into a numerical format ie 12/01/2004 so can easily use it to calculate time periods along with other date I have? Thanks! |
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