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Business Solutions Charts and Graphs for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007
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Business Solutions Charts and Graphs for Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007

by Bill Jelen
April 2007
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
480 pages
17h 6m
English
Que
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You follow these steps to convert the text date ranges shown in Figure 3.15 to real dates:
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Chapter 3 Creating Charts That Show Trends
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Figure 3.15
A mix of LEFT,
RIGHT,MID,and
FIND functions
parse this text to be
used in the
DATE
function.
1. Because the year is always the two rightmost characters in column A, in cell B2, enter
the formula
=RIGHT(A2,2).
2. Because the month is the leftmost one or two characters in column A, ask Excel to find
the first slash and then return the characters to the left of the slash. Enter
=FIND(“/”,A2) to indicate that the slash is in second character position. Use
=LEFT(A2,FIND(“/”,A2) to get the proper month number.
3.
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