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Default changing date formats



"David Biddulph" wrote:

=DATE(LEFT(A1,4),MID(A1,5,2),RIGHT(A1,2))
or
=--(TEXT(A1,"0000\/00\/00"))
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David Biddulph

"Heine" wrote in message
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hello everybody

I have thousands of rows looking like this:

20060505
20070302
20050708

etc.

How can I change these to date formats so I can calculate the number
of days between these dates and another row of dates?

Any ideas?

regards
Heine



excellent

H S SHASTRI

INDIA