Wildcard in IF statement - find date and reformat

[aliciacarlson92]

I have a "comments" column that will randomly include comments and a date string */* (eg. A1 = "del 5/20", A2 = "expected delivery 6/1", A3 = "4/7", A4= "delivery 11/01", etc.)

I want to find that date string in "comments column" and post in the adjacent column as standard date format: mm/dd/yyyy.

Thanks.

 

[Special-K99]

Will there only ever be one occurrence of "/" in the cell?
If not then you're probably wasting your time asking for a solution to this as it would be very complex.

 

[sheetspread]

This worked on your sample:

Excel 2010
	A	B
1	del 5/20	5/20/2018
2	expected delivery 6/1	6/1/2018
3	4/7	4/7/2018
4	delivery 11/01	11/1/2018
Sheet3

Cell Formulas
Range	Formula
B1	=DATEVALUE(TRIM(MID(" "&A1,SEARCH("/"," "&A1)-2,6))&"/18")

 

[aliciacarlson92]

Yes, it will include /. Sheetspread, thank you so much! Works like a charm

This worked on your sample:

Excel 2010

	A	B
del 5/20
expected delivery 6/1
4/7
delivery 11/01

<colgroup><col style="width: 25pxpx"><col><col></colgroup><thead>
</thead><tbody>
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]5/20/2018[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]6/1/2018[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]3[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]4/7/2018[/TD]

[TD="align: center"]4[/TD]

[TD="align: right"]11/1/2018[/TD]

</tbody>

Sheet3​

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[TH="width: 10px"]Cell[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Formula[/TH]
[/TR]
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[TH="width: 10px, bgcolor: [URL=https://www.mrexcel.com/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=DAE7F5]#DAE7F5[/URL] "]B1[/TH]
[TD="align: left"]=DATEVALUE(TRIM(MID(" "&A1,SEARCH("/"," "&A1)-2,6))&"/18")[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]
[/TD]
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