Use of Mid Function

[howard]

I have the following text in A15

State your financial year that ended on any date between 1 Oct 2009 and 30 Sept 2010

I Would like to use the Mid formula or another formula to extract the following from the text

1) 1 oct 2009 in cell A25
2) 30 Oct 2010 in Cell C 25

Your assistance in this regard will be most appreciated

 

[Richard Schollar]

Given your specific example, then perhaps:

<b>Excel 2002</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";background-color: #FFFFFF;border: 1px solid;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><colgroup><col width="25px" style="background-color: #E0E0F0" /><col /><col /><col /></colgroup><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;text-align: center;color: #161120"><th></th><th>A</th><th>B</th><th>C</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr ><td style="color: #161120;text-align: center;">1</td><td style=";">State your financial year that ended on any date between 1 Oct 2009 and 30 Sept 2010</td><td style="text-align: right;;">01 October 2009</td><td style="text-align: right;;">30 September 2010</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="width:3.6em;font-weight:bold;margin:0;padding:0.2em 0.6em 0.2em 0.5em;border: 1px solid #A6AAB6;border-top:none;text-align: center;background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">Sheet1</p><br /><br /><table width="85%" cellpadding="2.5px" rules="all" style=";border: 2px solid black;border-collapse:collapse;padding: 0.4em;background-color: #FFFFFF" ><tr><td style="padding:6px" ><b>Worksheet Formulas</b><table cellpadding="2.5px" width="100%" rules="all" style="border: 1px solid;text-align:center;background-color: #FFFFFF;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: #A6AAB6"><thead><tr style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120"><th width="10px">Cell</th><th style="text-align:left;padding-left:5px;">Formula</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">B1</th><td style="text-align:left">=LOOKUP(<font color="Blue">9.9E+307,--MID(<font color="Red">A1,MIN(<font color="Green">FIND(<font color="Purple">{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0},A1&1234567890</font>)</font>),ROW(<font color="Green">INDIRECT(<font color="Purple">"1:"&LEN(<font color="Teal">A1</font>)</font>)</font>)</font>)</font>)</td></tr><tr><th width="10px" style=" background-color: #E0E0F0;color: #161120">C1</th><td style="text-align:left">=LOOKUP(<font color="Blue">9.9E+307,--RIGHT(<font color="Red">A1,ROW(<font color="Green">INDIRECT(<font color="Purple">"1:"&LEN(<font color="Teal">A1</font>)</font>)</font>)</font>)</font>)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></table><br />

 

[howard]

Hi Richard


Thanks for the help, much appreciated. What does 9.9E+307 within the lookup function mean?

 

[Richard Schollar]

It's just a phenomenally big number which is bigger than any possible date that the formula might return (remembering that dates in Excel are stored as non-negative numbers)

 

[howard]

Hi Richard

Thanks for the info