Convert long date into date format

faodavid

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Hi
Can anyone advise how to convert text format of
Monday 18 August 2014
<colgroup><col width="140" style="width: 105pt; mso-width-source: userset; mso-width-alt: 5973;"> <tbody> </tbody>

to date format 18/08/14 so that it is sortable
Thanks
Dave
 

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=REPLACE(A1,1,FIND(" ",A1),"")+0

Format as date.
Copy down.

You can either sort on this column or do a copy and Paste Special Values over the originals.
 
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