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Default Changine text into a date

Great stuff very helpful. Thank you....

"Bernard Liengme" wrote:

Select the range of cells to be converted
Use Data | Text to Columns
Use Delimits, click Next until you get to step 3
Set Date box to YMD and press finish
Done!

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I have the following date 20081128

How do I convert this figure to the date 28/11/2008?

Can anyone help?

Thanks.




 
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