How can you split text to columns if there are multiple delimiters of the same type in Excel?

Question

I have a column that has dates, days, and times in it. I need to split out just the time but there are multiple hyphens, how can I achieve this? Below is what I have.

Recording Time
Monday July 11 2022 - 8:00am - 10:00am

This is what I want

| Monday July 11 2022 | 8:00am - 10:00am |

Answer 1

I would also try:

=left(A1,find("-",A1,1)-2)

And

=mid(A1,find("-",A1,1)+2,len(A1))

Which will split either side of the first - .

Check for the formatting for your results.

Answer 2

Another solution is to temporarily avoid the second hyphen with some find and replace actions:

1. find and replace in your relevant column of times/dates: m - replace with m +
2. Text-to-columns split on the first hyphen
3. find and replace in the times column: m + replace with m -

The use of the + character is simply a convenient choice here.

Answer 3

You can do this by using the formula

=right(a1,19)

This will extract the last 19 characters of the cell in a1.

Answer 4

If the columns are going to be consistent, I would use the "Fixed width" option instead of "Delimited". You can tell it exactly where you want the field to be split, specify the formatting for each new column, etc.