Text to date format
 

Hi everyone,

In our system generated .CSV file, one column is the date in the format
of YYYYMMDD, for example 20060301.

I want to format this column to this date format, 3/1/2006, but I
can't. It just gives me a bunch of #'s. I copied the column to another
sheet but got the same result.


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Text to date format
 

ledzepe

if the text is in cell A9

=DATE(LEFT(A9,4),MID(A9,5,2),RIGHT(A9,2))

Regards

Trevor


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Hi everyone,

In our system generated .CSV file, one column is the date in the format
of YYYYMMDD, for example 20060301.

I want to format this column to this date format, 3/1/2006, but I
can't. It just gives me a bunch of #'s. I copied the column to another
sheet but got the same result.


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Text to date format
 

Select the column you want to change.
Select Data-Text to columns
Select Delimited and click next
Click next again
Select Date and choose YMD
Click Finish

All cells in that column containing a number like 20060301 should now be
changed to a date like 3/1/2006.

"ledzepe" wrote:


Hi everyone,

In our system generated .CSV file, one column is the date in the format
of YYYYMMDD, for example 20060301.

I want to format this column to this date format, 3/1/2006, but I
can't. It just gives me a bunch of #'s. I copied the column to another
sheet but got the same result.


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