如何将文本格式转换为Excel日期？

Question

I have a column that has a name date: Friday, December 25, 2015 and I want to convert it to a date format: 12/25/2015 , that way I can perform other date functions.

I have unsuccessfully tried both changing the format directly and using the =DATEVAL() function.

Any direction would be great. thanks

Answer 1

First remove the day names

Ctrl+f and just replace "Friday," or "Saturday," or other days with "" now your columns should be formatted like "December 25, 2015"

Now use the dateval function like =DATEVALUE("December 25, 2015")

Now select date from formatting and you should be good.

Answer 2

With text in A1 use:

=DATEVALUE(MID(A1,FIND(", ",A1,1)+2,9999))

and format as a Date :