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Rec'd date/time data as: "12/01/08@12:05 PM". Does anyone have an easy way to
conver this to date-time data for calculation in Excel?????

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Edit/ Find and Replace/ change @ to a space
or
=--SUBSTITUTE(A1,"@"," ") and format appropriately,
but in either case don't forget to tell your system (in Windows Regional
Settings under Control Panel) whether you are working in dd/mm/yy or
mm/dd/yy, as 12/01/08 is ambiguous.
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Rec'd date/time data as: "12/01/08@12:05 PM". Does anyone have an easy way
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=DATEVALUE(LEFT(A7,8))+TIMEVALUE(RIGHT(A7,8))

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Rec'd date/time data as: "12/01/08@12:05 PM". Does anyone have an easy way to
conver this to date-time data for calculation in Excel?????

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