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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Episode 753 - Text Date/Time

When Romas sent in the question for podcast 751, I couldn't tell from the screenshot if his data actually was date/time or text that looked like a date/time. In Episode 753, I take a look at how to tell if the cell contains a date or something that looks like a date. You will also see how to use the TEXT, LEFT, MID, DATE functions to convert the text date/time to a real date.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Episode 722 - Paul McCartney

The PROPER function never manages to capitalize the interior C in McCartney. In today's podcast, an interesting way to solve this problem with a formula. Episode 722 shows you how.

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