If you have to work with a date stamp in Microsoft Excel that includes date and time, you can use these simple expressions to extract both components, making them easier to work with.

Q. I receive Excel spreadsheets regularly that contain dates. I have to manually look up the day of the week that represents these dates. Are there any functions that can help speed this process along ...

This guide provides step-by-step instructions with examples how to extract a substring in Excel using various text functions.