You might try selecting the range of data and run this:

Sub a()
Dim Cell As Range
For Each Cell In Selection
Cell.Value = Left(Cell.Value, 4) & "/" & _
Mid(Cell.Value, 5, 2) & "/" & _
Right(Cell.Value, 2)
Next
End Sub


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Jim
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| I'm pretty sure this can be done but if I tried on my own, I'll probably
| fail or do a lot more than I need to... so here's my problem. In one
| column, I have data (about 10,000 rows or more) in terms of a date
| format, BUT it's not really the format I want. How do I go from:
|
| Original: 20060105
| to
| New: 1/5/2006
|
| I don't want to manually change each record because it'll be too long.
| I tried format cells and it didn't work.
|
| However, I noticed that if I put a "/" between the year, month, and
| day, like so: 2006/01/05, it automatically becomes 1/5/2006. Is there a
| small command/program that can insert a "/" after the 4th digit (year)
| and the 6th digit (month) so it can become 1/5/2006?
|
| Please help ASAP!!!!
|
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