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Default Simple way to change text dates to numerical?

I am working on a huge Excel 2003 workbook with many worksheets. Initially I
am downloading the data from another database into Excel. All the dates
(thousands of them) are written like Dec 3, 2007. I want to change them to be
like 12/3/07 but I don't want to have to type it all in manually if I don't
have to. If I go to format and go to date it seems you can select that format
but it doesn't change what is already in the downloaded data. Is there a
simple way to do this? Thanks.
 
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