Sorry, 3/1/2006 not 3/1/3006...."you know what I meant"....the formula is
ok, just mine typing is tired.......bed time here in St. Petersburg,
Florida......

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3




"CLR" wrote in message
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You can only make it TEXT to appear to be 29/02/2006.

=RIGHT(A1,2)&"/"&MID(A1,5,2)&"/"&LEFT(A1,4)

If turned into a DATE it becomes 3/1/3006 as there is no Feb 29th in
2006.....

=DATE(LEFT(A1,4),MID(A1,5,2),RIGHT(A1,2))

Vaya con Dios,
Chuck, CABGx3



"DD" wrote in message
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I have a field in a delimited CSV. file 20060229 and want to convert it
to
a
date field reading 29/02/2006. How can I do that?