excel date formatting not working

Question

I have an excel sheet created by a 3rd party program.

One of the columns has dates in this format: \"Jan 19, 2015 03:00:00 PM\"

I would like these dates to appea

Answer 1

The following worked for me:

• Select the date column.
• Go to the Data-tab and choose "Text to Columns".
• On the first screen, leave radio button on "delimited" and click Next.
• Unselect any delimiter boxes (everything blank) and click Next.
• Under column data format choose Date
• Click Finish.

Now you got date values