try this where f12 is 05115
=DATEVALUE("1/1/20"&LEFT(F12,2))+RIGHT(F12,LEN(F12)-2)-1

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Don Guillett
SalesAid Software

"jlynn2000" wrote in message
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I have a report that has a YRDATE format where YR=last two digits of the
year
the document was created and the DATE is the day number of that year.

For example: 05115 which should be 04/25/2005. What would my function/
formula be to convert the 05115 to the correct common date?