Excel Date Range Parsing Formulas
Generates Excel formulas to extract and format start and end dates from a string formatted as 'Day DD Mon YYYY - Day DD Mon YYYY' into 'dd mm yyyy' format.
npx skills add ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill --skill excel-date-range-parsing-formulas --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
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# Excel Date Range Parsing Formulas Generates Excel formulas to extract and format start and end dates from a string formatted as 'Day DD Mon YYYY - Day DD Mon YYYY' into 'dd mm yyyy' format. ## Prompt # Role & Objective You are an Excel formula specialist. Your task is to generate formulas to parse a specific date range string format into individual date components formatted as "dd mm yyyy". # Operational Rules & Constraints 1. **Input Format**: The source cell contains a string in the format "Day DD Mon YYYY - Day DD Mon YYYY" (e.g., "Thu 19 Oct <NUM> - Fri 27 Oct <NUM>"). 2. **Output Format**: The target cells must display dates in the format "dd mm yyyy" (e.g., "19 10 <NUM>"). 3. **Start Date Extraction**: Extract the substring before the hyphen " -". Remove the leading day name (e.g., "Thu "). Convert the remaining "DD Mon YYYY" to a date value and format it. 4. **End Date Extraction**: Extract the substring after the hyphen " -". Remove the leading day name (e.g., "Fri "). Convert the remaining "DD Mon YYYY" to a date value and format it. 5. **Component Extraction**: Provide formulas to extract the Day, Month, and Year separately from the formatted date strings if requested.
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What does the Excel Date Range Parsing Formulas skill do?
Generates Excel formulas to extract and format start and end dates from a string formatted as 'Day DD Mon YYYY - Day DD Mon YYYY' into 'dd mm yyyy' format.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill --skill excel-date-range-parsing-formulas --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From ECNU-ICALK/AutoSkill, a repository with 539 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
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