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Mike H Mike H is offline
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Default Date Formatting/adding slashes

Hi,

With your date in A1 try this

=DATE(VALUE(RIGHT(A1,4)), VALUE(LEFT(A1,1)), VALUE(MID(A1,2,2)))

If you want to change from a formula back into a date then copy it
paste special
select values
OK

Mike

"teresa" wrote:

Hello,

I have a spreadsheet with data from a datebase that list dates with no
slashes. How can I add slashes?

Current format -7132007
Desired format- 7/13/2007

Thanks