Extract Date formula Only

[jc9972003]

Hello can someone please help me.
I'm exporting a report from a diffrent scource and in one section it has this
"Yesterday ( Oct 1, 2012 12:00:00 AM - Oct 2, 2012 12:00:00 AM )"

Can anyone tell me how I can extract the First date only and paste it to a diffrent cell? In this case it would be Oct 1, 2012 or 10/1/2012
Thank you

 

[Don Guillett]

Hello can someone please help me.

I'm exporting a report from a diffrent scource and in one section it has this

"Yesterday ( Oct 1, 2012 12:00:00 AM - Oct 2, 2012 12:00:00 AM )"



Can anyone tell me how I can extract the First date only and paste it to a diffrent cell? In this case it would be Oct 1, 2012 or 10/1/2012

Thank you

For a formula look in the help index for FIND or SEARCH and incorporate into a MID function.
Or use vba with INSTR function
you are looking for "(" and "-" and then format as date only without time.

 

[zvkmpw]

I'm exporting a report from a diffrent scource and in one section it has this

"Yesterday ( Oct 1, 2012 12:00:00 AM - Oct 2, 2012 12:00:00 AM )"

Can anyone tell me how I can extract the First date only and paste it to
a diffrent cell? In this case it would be Oct 1, 2012 or 10/1/2012

With the string in A1, maybe something likethis would help:
=DATEVALUE(TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",REPT(" ",100)),FIND("(",A1)+1,80)))

 

[lhkittle]

Hello can someone please help me.

I'm exporting a report from a diffrent scource and in one section it has this

"Yesterday ( Oct 1, 2012 12:00:00 AM - Oct 2, 2012 12:00:00 AM )"



Can anyone tell me how I can extract the First date only and paste it to a diffrent cell? In this case it would be Oct 1, 2012 or 10/1/2012

Thank you

Try this, should work with both Oct 1 & Oct 12. (single & double digits days)

FYI: If the day is one digit, returns the month, day, year + space after year. Otherwise month, day & just year.

=MID(F14,FIND("(",F14)+2,12)

Regards,
Howard

 

[jc9972003]

Hello can someone please help me. I'm exporting a report from a diffrent scource and in one section it has this "Yesterday ( Oct 1, 2012 12:00:00 AM- Oct 2, 2012 12:00:00 AM )" Can anyone tell me how I can extract the First date only and paste it to a diffrent cell? In this case it would be Oct 1, 2012 or 10/1/2012 Thank you

Thank you all for the help..