I have text that I would like to de-concatenate. The "left" or "right"
functions will not work, because the text is of varying length (unless there
is another way to utilize these functions that I am not aware of.) Basically,
someone else formatted a spreadsheet with date ranges in one cell (it looks
like 12/1/08-12/31/08). I want each date in its own column, so I would
basically like to de-concatenate it. The only way I have done this before is
using the "left" or "right" functions, but as I said earlier, the date ranges
are of varying length, since some months and days are single digits and some
are double digits. Does anyone know a formula I could try? I want to take
everything before the dash and put it in one cell and everything after the
dash and put it in the other, so it seems like this should be fairly simple,
but I just can't figure it out. There's 3000 cells that need to be split, so
if there is an easy way out other than cutting and pasting, I'd like to take
advantage of it! thanks!