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I have a colunm of numbers some are eight digits long, 12221967, and some are
seven digits long, 8031985. How would i format them into a date like
12/22/1967 or 8/03/1985??
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=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,3,2),LEFT(A1 ,2)),DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,2,2),LEFT(A1,1)))

format cell as DATE

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I have a colunm of numbers some are eight digits long, 12221967, and some are
seven digits long, 8031985. How would i format them into a date like
12/22/1967 or 8/03/1985??
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.... I assumed UK date format (DDMMYYYY) so for US format:

=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3 ,2)),DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,1),MID(A1,2,2)))

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=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,3,2),LEFT(A1 ,2)),DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,2,2),LEFT(A1,1)))

format cell as DATE

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I have a colunm of numbers some are eight digits long, 12221967, and some are
seven digits long, 8031985. How would i format them into a date like
12/22/1967 or 8/03/1985??
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hmm, i tried this and i get a Value error in the cell. I must be doing
something wrong.

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... I assumed UK date format (DDMMYYYY) so for US format:

=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3 ,2)),DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,1),MID(A1,2,2)))

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=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,3,2),LEFT(A1 ,2)),DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,2,2),LEFT(A1,1)))

format cell as DATE

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I have a colunm of numbers some are eight digits long, 12221967, and some are
seven digits long, 8031985. How would i format them into a date like
12/22/1967 or 8/03/1985??
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Default How do you format a number into a date?
Check that your numbers are numbers and not text with leading or
trailing spaces - if you do have these then you can get rid of them
using TRIM(A1) wherever A1 appears in Toppers' formula.

Hope this helps.

Pete

kim wrote:
hmm, i tried this and i get a Value error in the cell. I must be doing
something wrong.

"Toppers" wrote:

... I assumed UK date format (DDMMYYYY) so for US format:

=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,3 ,2)),DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,1),MID(A1,2,2)))

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=IF(LEN(A1)=8,DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,3,2),LEFT(A1 ,2)),DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),MID(A1,2,2),LEFT(A1,1)))

format cell as DATE

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I have a colunm of numbers some are eight digits long, 12221967, and some are
seven digits long, 8031985. How would i format them into a date like
12/22/1967 or 8/03/1985??

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Default How do you format a number into a date?
Another way:
Insert a helper column and fill it with formulas like:

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

Format that column as a date.

Then select that helper column
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edit|paste special|values
and delete the original column of data???




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I have a colunm of numbers some are eight digits long, 12221967, and some are
seven digits long, 8031985. How would i format them into a date like
12/22/1967 or 8/03/1985??

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Thanks for you info. I still can't get it to work, but thanks for trying!! :)

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I have a colunm of numbers some are eight digits long, 12221967, and some are
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