If your Windows Regional Settings recognise a format of mddyyyy, you can
apply the below formula and format the formula cell to date..

=--TEXT(A1,"00\-00\-0000")

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Jacob (MVP - Excel)


"SherryS" wrote:

When importing from payroll, it gives me all dates formatted as general
numbers (i.e. 07/17/2009 is presented as 7172009. Is there any way to
convert these numbers into dates?