Use Text to Columns Convert Dates Stored as Text

Have you ever gotten a file and it there was a column that represented a date, but when you tried to perform some calculation with the value in the date column you get some error like a #VALUE? It's most likely due to the fact that the values in that column are text representation of the date (i.e., Monday February 19 2018 6:28 PM). Excel will recognized this as text and one indication is to see if it is left aligned to the cell (values/numbers are right aligned to the cell). If you wanted to do date calculation you'd need to convert the date text into a "proper" date value. This video shows how to use the Text to Columns feature to do that so check it out!

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Please watch: "Convert Table in a PDF File to Excel"
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[excelisfun]

Love the Thumb Nail Happy Face, and of course Text To Columns rocks too : )

[mmarussich]

That did help! Thank you for going into enough detail that I could learn how to do what I was trying to do, which was to do text-to-columns without converting the 1/12 IT port values to dates. thank you

[sokcheaou]

Can every one run this formular in excel at 4:20 in the video
it is a silly