Myrna Larson

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In case you are wondering why your formula didn't work, it's because
characters are counted starting with 1, not 0. It should be

=DATEVALUE(MID(A3,1,10))

"gb_S49" wrote in message
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I am trying to extract just the date aspect of the following (text?) (cell
A3)
30/03/2005 14:17:00. using =DATEVALUE(MID(A3,0,10))
all i get #value

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