Question

I am trying to take the following value and making it into a date format of dd-MMM-yy

For example: 110412 turns into 04-NOV-12

My formula as of right now is:

(CONCATENATE(MID(E14,3,2),"-",(TEXT(LEFT(E14,2),"MMM")),"-",RIGHT(E14,2)))

It is giving me 04-Jan-12.

Please note that I would like the month to be in all caps.

Answer 1

Try using the “UPPER(foo)” function as a wrapper to make the result all caps.

UPPER((CONCATENATE(MID(E14,3,2),"-",(TEXT(LEFT(E14,2),"MMM")),"-",RIGHT(E14,2))))

or better still:

=MID(E14,3,2)&"-"&UPPER(TEXT(DATE(MID(E14,5,2),MID(E14,1,2),MID(E14,3,2)),"MMM"))&"-"&RIGHT(E14,2)