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what function in Excel returns say the 3rd to the 5th characters in a cell?

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tell-me-more | 14:07 Wed 05th Apr 2006 | Technology
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e.g. if I have a cell saying 01-JAN-2006, how do I pick out the 01 and the JAN to use in other formulae?


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You need the MID function.


=MID(A1,4,3) looks at cell A1 and gives 3 characters starting from the 4th character.

16:00 Wed 05th Apr 2006
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... but MID by itself will use the date code instead of the actual date so you need to interpret the date as text

=MID(TEXT(A1,"dd-mmm"),1,2) returns the day

=MID(TEXT(A1,"dd-mmm"),4,3) returns the month
16:04 Wed 05th Apr 2006
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If Cell A1="01-JAN-2006"


day(A1) = 1


Month(A1) = 1


Year(A1) = 2006


If Cell A2= Month(A1), formatting this cell as "mmm" will display JAN

16:07 Wed 05th Apr 2006
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Brilliant answers. Thank you to each of you. I actually used the day, month functions in the end, but each answer was useful to me for future reference.
09:09 Thu 06th Apr 2006

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