Yes, you are entering the date wrongly.
010108 is the 10108th day counting from 1.1.1900, hence 3/9/1927.
You need to type in the data in a form recognised by your Windows Regional
Options date format (so usually it is looking for 14/03/01, or whatever, not
140301).

Having entered it wrongly, you can probably salvage it by using Data/ Text
to Columns/ ... and selecting Date & DMY as the input column format at the
final stage of the wizard.
--
David Biddulph

"Stuart Perry" wrote in message
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Hi there
I'm using Excel 2002 with SP3 installed
I'm having a few problems with dates. I've formatted the cell to use a
date
format of 14.03.01 but when I enter the date (by typing for example
010108)
instead of changing the data to 01.01.08 it changes it to 3.9.27.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong, am I simply entering the data wrong?.