Excel: text conversion to date format -


i convert text - apr 7 2017 date format on excel spread sheet. there formula might it? have tried format cell date format did not change cell properties. thank suggestions

with data in a1, in cell enter:

=datevalue(lookup(left(a1,3),{"apr","aug","dec","feb","jan","jul","jun","mar","may","nov","oct","sep"},{4,8,12,2,1,7,6,3,5,11,10,9}) & mid(substitute(a1," ","/"),4,99)) 

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an alternative:

=datevalue(trim(mid(a1,5,2)) & "-" & left(a1,3) & "-" & right(a1,4)) 

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