Extract Date as Text

How_Do_I

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How would I extract June 1918 from the following as text please?

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8June 1918 Moved to Dublin.
Sheet1
 

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Looking at your sample data, I'm wondering if this would also work for you?

=IF(MID(G12,4,1)=" ",LEFT(G12,8),TEXT(SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(G12,10),".","-"),"dd-mmm-yyyy"))
 
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Yes Ford, some will be September 1917 (I entered that in full to stop it reverting to 01-Sep-17) and other dates will be the actual date, the first of September 1917 (01-Sep-17)
 
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Looking at your sample data, I'm wondering if this would also work for you?

=IF(MID(G12,4,1)=" ",LEFT(G12,8),TEXT(SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(G12,10),".","-"),"dd-mmm-yyyy"))

I ran that down 100 sample rows of data and that is working too thank you Peter.
 
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