With your "20010821" in A1, this formula in b1 will change it to a real
date..........
=DATE(LEFT(A1,4),MID(A1,5,2),RIGHT(A1,2))

Data Filter Autofilter custom, using and < dates will group the
filtering........

hth
Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"Michael" wrote in message
...
Hi, I have all the English football league results from 1890 to present
day.
The data is in the format "20010821","P","home team ","1","away team ","0"
---- Date,Div,Hteam,Score,Ateam,Score.
I have for a long time wanted to use excel to format league tables for any
week or date. I feel I would be able to do this if I was pointed in the
right direction concerning methods pf programming or perhaps there are
some
templates around somewhere, any comment will be a help in pointing me in
the
right direction.
Michael

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