How to insert text into a cell

Benjamin Riley

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How to insert text into a cell

I have a sheet full of dates exported from an accounting software package.
The dates are in the following format yyyymmdd as in 19810305 for March 5,
1981. What I need to do is change the look of the cell from 19810305 to
03/05/1981. Can someone help me with this.

P.S. I tried to format the cells as a date but it just gives me a bunch of
#### crap.

Thanks

BEN

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