Converting unusually formatted dates into usable data: Text to columns

…In this worksheet called Unusual Formats, we've got 3 different sets of dates and…each one of them is awkward to work with and they have a different layout.…We can change these dates by selecting the data and then on the…data tab clicking text to columns, a great tool for parsing data, picking it…apart, choose delimited and then next and next, ignoring all options…along the way and then focus on the data option here in step 3 of 3.…As we look at the data there from left to…right, and you might just look at a few entries to…figure this out, we start with day, 2 digit day,…then a 4 digit year, and then a 2 digit month.…

So we're looking at day, year, month.…That's dym.…We've got options here, 6 different ones.…We are looking for dym, there is it right there and…then choose finish and the date is converted to something useful.…We convert them into dates we convert into dates we can use them.…In column d same idea all over again but here the year comes first so that means…we will be looking fo y and then a 2 digit month and then a 2 digit day.…