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.

This article looks at a few ways to extract and present information about the day, month, and then year.

This enables you to update the source workbook's date, allowing Excel to extract that date and make it appear in the other worksheet.

Excel automatically recognizes common formats, such as "3/17/2012," "Mar 17, 2012" or "17 Mar 2012." Use the Month function to extract the month number from a referenced cell.

Learn how to extract specific data from Excel cells using formulas, tools, and techniques to clean and organize messy datasets.