Mick

What does "did not work" mean to you?

Followed the steps, making sure that the 6 digits were entered as text by
pre-formatting the range as text.

Got this returned after Custom formatting.

April 17, 2005
December 15, 2004
January 1, 2005
October 12, 2006
September 25, 2004
December 25, 2005

Looks OK to me.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 18:06:02 -0700, Mick wrote:

I am sorry if this is a stupid question but here goes .

If I type in dates as 010106 it gives me 01/09/27
This was raised in an earlier Question I tried the reply by Ragdyer which was
(If you were going to enter a *very* large number of dates into a column,
where you might consider it worthwhile using several *extra* steps in Text
To Columns (TTC), you could enter your dates using *6* digits (to avoid
ambiguity), *without* delimiters.

This entails a whole other procedure, so the saving wouldn't be realized
unless the number of dates to be entered was quite large.

For example, you could enter dates as mmddyy.
041705
121504
010105
101206
092504
122505

Then, select the cells, and
<Data <TextToColumns <Next <Next

Click on "Date", and make sure "MDY" shows in the window,
Then <Finish.

You've now made your 6 digit date entries recognizable to XL as *the* dates
that you want, not "morphed" into dates XL chooses.)

It did not work for me can someone please help me