Question : Excel: How to Remove Characters in a Date String

I'm trying to remove the time characters in the Date-Time values, using the MID(..FIND(..)) function.

I was trying to get this to work by trial and error, but when I try to run the function:  

=MID(A1,1,FIND(":",A1,1)-1)

it is interpreting the date/time as a decimal number as shown on the right, and so it never finds the ":" character.

Cells A1 - A3 contain the following:

1/1/2008 7:29                  Data Looks Like: 39448.3121412037
11/9/2008 7:31                Data Looks Like: 39761.3137615741
11/23/2008 18:34           Data Looks Like: 39775.7741203704

The final result I want is as follows:

1/1/2008
11/9/2008
11/23/2008

How do I get this to work as intended?  Thanks.

Answer : Excel: How to Remove Characters in a Date String

Not sure if your problem is the format or the actual data. Assuming you want the underlying data (1/1/2008 7:29) with a 0 time (1/1/2008 00:00).
If your original data is in cell C2, try the following:=DATE(YEAR(C2),MONTH(C2),DAY(C2))