Normally it will work with find and replace (find the slash and replace it
with the identical slash or find and replcae the 0 with a 0) so long as you
reformt the cell to date prior to doing the replace. Failing that you can
use the excel function Datevalue which takes a date in text and returns the
Serial date...
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HTH...

Jim Thomlinson


"Undrline" wrote:

Sometimes - especially when I copy/paste from Access - dates look like dates,
I can format the cells as dates, but they're not *really* dates. For
instance, if I format the cell as a number, I should get the serial date.
Or, if I change the date format from mm/dd/yy to m/d/yyyy, it should change.
If I manually delete a /, retype it and hit enter, it suddenly recognizes it
as a date. But, if I try to automate this workaround with a find/replace, it
still doesn't recognize it as a date. What's up? I *really* don't want to
manually do it with a thousand cells.