Instead, Excel may interpret this information as a text or string value only.

Datetime

To get a finaldatetime, we just add the date value to the time value.

For example, =LEFT(“apple”,3) returns “app”.

Excel formula: Convert date to text

For example, =MID(“apple”,2,3) returns “ppl”.

TIMEVALUE Function

The Excel TIMEVALUE function converts a time represented as text into a proper Excel time.

Numeric time values are more useful than text since they can be directly…

Excel formula: Convert text to date

Excel formula: Convert time to time zone

Excel DATEVALUE function

Excel LEFT function

Excel MID function

Excel TIMEVALUE function