separate day,month, year from date using fx or text-to-columns

lezawang

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Hi
if I have date like 13/1/2001, I know i can use day(), month() and year() to separate day, year and month. I also know I can use text to columns. Which method has advantage/disadvantage over other. Thank you so much.
 

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Hi,

You should check if you have a Date or Text ...

With a Date, you should be using the first method ... and with Text ... you should pick the second one ...

Hope this wiil help
 
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Thanks for your reply. I have date (date format)

1/1/2001

I used day, month, year functions and I got 1 , 1 , 2001 - three cells and in general format

then I used text to columns and I got 1, 1, 2001 - three cells in general format.. so I do not see any difference? Thank you so much
 
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