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Default How to prevent text turning into date format


Hi all, i have been trying write a marco to extract the date portio
from date:time. The problem is the latter(date:time) is in strin
format and when i used the left() function to extract the date, i
automatically converts into date format. How can i prevent this??
Thanks for your help

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