Date formatting in VBA - excel

I have a date: SAT 29 JUN 19. How do I convert it into date format e.g. 29 JUN 19 using Excel-VBA. Thanks.
By using this code:
wb.ActiveSheet.Cells(erow, 1) = CDate(Format(RemoveWkDay, "DD MMM YY"))
The output is: 29/06/2019

Based on your comments above, you can use:
wb.ActiveSheet.Range("A1:A30").NumberFormat = "dd mmm yy;#"
To do that for the whole column, use Range("A:A") instead.
In fact, you do not need VBA for this. You can just set that string as the custom format in the Sheet.

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How do I convert Excel General Text to Date

So my problem is I have a Date that is defined as General in Excel as this "10 JUL 2021 10:30" I want to make it Excel Date.
kindly have a look at my picture for detailed understanding.
Need any kind of solution to automate this VBA or any formula,
Thanks in advance
If you need VBA to extract Date, please use the next function:
Function TextToDateX(txt As String) As Date
Dim arrD, arrM
arrM = Split("JAN,FEB,MAR,APR,MAY,JUN,JUL,AUG,SEP,OCT,NOV,DEC", ",")
arrD = Split(txt, " ")
TextToDateX = DateSerial(CLng(arrD(2)), Application.match(arrD(1), arrM, 0), CLng(arrD(0))) + CVDate(arrD(3))
End Function
It can be tested as:
Sub testTextToDateX()
Dim txt As String, d As Date
txt = "10 JUL 2021 10:30"
d = TextToDateX(txt)
Debug.Print Format(d, "dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm")
End Sub
DateValue is localization related. Microsoft states: "DateValue recognizes the order for month, day, and year according to the Short Date format that you specified for your system". So, it may work or not.
In my case it doesn't...
I just tried using the DateValue() worksheet function, and every worked fine (normal Excel formula, no VBA needed):
=DATEVALUE("07 JUL 2021 10:30")
One thing that might be interesting for you: there exists a cell formatting (dd mmm yyyy hh:mm), which you seem to be using. (When you apply this on any cell, the value inside gets automatically formatted into that kind of date format.)
Edit, based on comment:
In case there's a comma in your date string, remove it first and then apply the DateValue() function:
=DATEVALUE(SUBSTITUTE("07 JUL 2021, 10:30",",",""))

Is formula can extract long space date from text string?

i have do the research all over the internet but most of the references is about dd/mm/yy or dd.mm.yy but i want something like dd mmmm yyyy (between are using space)
and i have tried to used
=MID(A1,SEARCH("?? ????? ????",A1),13)
to extract the date from the text string but it will error in some cell such as display the text not date.
my date will be in 2 type below:
on (1 April 2020)
on 1 April 2020
if on has CONCAT and FILTERXML:
=CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(following::*[1],"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))&" "&CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(.,"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))&" "&CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(preceding::*[1],"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))
Note: this returns the string. If one wants a true date then:
=--(CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(following::*[1],"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))&" "&CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(.,"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),""))&" "&CONCAT(IFERROR(FILTERXML("<a><b>"&SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A1,")",""),"(","")," ","</b><b>")&"</b></a>","//b[starts-with(preceding::*[1],"&{"'Jan'","'Feb'","'Mar'","'Apr'","'May'","'Jun'","'Jul'","'Aug'","'Sep'","'Oct'","'Nov'","'Dec'"}&")]"),"")))
And format the date as desired.

Error while creating name manager

I have an Excel file which has a column formatted as date in the format dd-mm-YYYY.
I need to convert that field to text. If I change the field type excel converts it to a strange value (like 40603).
I tried the text function but it gives me Error 508.
i learn this method in http://www.excel-formulas.in/2016/01/names-in-excel-formulas-online.html
Any help?
I don't see how this would relate to the name range manager, anyway...select the cell that you want the string to be placed in and use the following formula
=TEXT(A1,"dddd dd mmmm yyyy")
You can edit how you want the date to be displayed inside the quotes
dddd = Monday, Tuesday...
ddd = Mon, Tue...
dd = 01, 02...
d = 1, 2...
mmmmm = J, F...
mmmm = January, February...
mmm = Jan, Feb...
mm = 01, 02...
m = 1, 2...
yyyy = 2016, 2017...
yy = 16, 17...
Hope this helps

How to change date format to Month (abbreviated text)

how do i change formate date from 25-Feb-2013 to Feb only?
Means here, it only extract the abbreviated month only.
i try to use this code but it does't work and it turn Feb to Jul
Sheet1.Range("A2:A9") = Format(Date, "mmm")
Sheet1.Range("A2:A9") = Application.text(Date, "mmm")
You may try:
Sheet1.Range("A2:A9").NumberFormatLocal = "mmm"
As suggested by #user3271518, this is found by recording a macro, changing the format and then looking at the macro recorded.

Making Excel Recognize Custom Day/Time Format

I'm working with a date and time format from the Twitter API. It looks like this:
Tue Nov 26 20:44:15 +0000 2013
Is there a formula to convert this to a format that could be sorted chronologically? I don't need the +0000. Also not concerned about the day of week.
=DATEVALUE(MID(A1,9,3) & MID(A1,4,5) & RIGHT(A1,4)) + TIMEVALUE(MID(A1,11,9))
Then format as you like. As requested you would want a Custom Format of mmm dd HH:mm yyyy
Try this, assuming that your string is in A1:
=DATETIME(MID(A1, 5, 16) & MID(A1, 27, 4))
The two MID formulas cut out the parts of the string you want, namely the month, day, time, and year, but exclude the day of the week and the timezone. This produces a string that the DATETIME function can automatically recognize and covert into a native Excel date format.

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