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Right now I have a picklist field the I want to be used in an Email Template.

The picklist values are "Monday, January 17th 5:30 PM" and "Saturday, March 18th 10:00 AM".

The formula I have of now is {!MID(Contact.Date__c,1,LEN(Contact.Date__c) - 9)} which takes 9 characters from the right side and cuts it off which works for the Saturday, March 18th 10:00 AM but not for the other date.

How do I create a formula that is dynamic so the merge field works for both pick list values?

EX. If the user selects Monday, January 17th 5:30 PM it should return Monday, January 17th and if the user selects Saturday, March 18th 10:00 AM it should return March 18th 10:00AM.

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  • Why don't you just use Datetime type fields to store the value? Then you could do DATEVALUE(Datetime_Field__c).
    – Adrian Larson ♦
    Apr 5, 2017 at 23:38
  • This is a specific case. I wish I could use a DATETIME field :(
    – Kevin
    Apr 5, 2017 at 23:39
  • Are these two fixed values and would return as that example?
    – Santanu Boral
    Apr 6, 2017 at 0:57
  • check your example, I think there something wrong in that
    – Santanu Boral
    Apr 6, 2017 at 1:00

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This formula will work for you. It will search for :, take the position and return the trimmed value.

{!TRIM(MID(ContactDate__c,1,FIND(":", ContactDate__c )-3))}

Example

Wednesday, March 18th 1:00 AM returns Wednesday, March 18th

Saturday, March 18th 10:00 AM returns Saturday, March 18th

Thursday, March 6th 2:00 AM returns Thursday, March 6th

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