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Tom Roberts Tom Roberts is offline
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Default Formating Dates

Hi,
I have a list of dates in this format;

20071105
yyyymmdd

I would like to have these displayed in excel in a more easy-to-read format,
such as dd/mm/yy. If i simply try to format these cells as a date in excel
it predictably treats them as negative dates and displays them as ########.
Is there a way I can get excel to format these cells correctly, without
having to manually type in a huge list of dates?

Thanks,
Tom