What I got was:

120100 12 1 0 12/1/1900

I see your point. My method will always map into the last century.
Good catch!
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Gary's Student


"Biff" wrote:

Try that with this:

120100

Biff

"Gary''s Student" wrote in message
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In A1: 81096
In B1: =INT(A1/10000) month part shows 8
In C1: =INT((A1-10000*B1)/100) day part shows 10
In D1: =A1-10000*B1-100*C1 year part shows 96
In E1: =DATE(D1,B1,C1)
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Gary's Student


"Frank Winston" wrote:

Is there a way to convert a column of text, date values (entered as
81096,
for example) to valid date format, 8/10/96? I could not get the
DATEVALUE
function to do this.