Hi

I have a download from a generic program that sends dates as follows
20061230 and I need to automatically change the formating to read 30/12/2006
so that I can perform other calculations on the date, how can I do this?

Steve,
You could do something similar with an Excel formula also:

Public Function ConvDate(inDate As String) As Date
ConvDate = DateSerial(Left(inDate, 4), Mid(inDate, 5, 2), Right(inDate, 2))
End Function

NickHK

"Steve Wood" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have a download from a generic program that sends dates as follows
20061230 and I need to automatically change the formating to read
30/12/2006
so that I can perform other calculations on the date, how can I do this?

Steve

You could also simply try:

=TEXT(A1+0,"0000-00-00")+0

and format the cell as

dd/mm/yyyy

Richard


NickHK wrote:

Steve,
You could do something similar with an Excel formula also:

Public Function ConvDate(inDate As String) As Date
ConvDate = DateSerial(Left(inDate, 4), Mid(inDate, 5, 2), Right(inDate, 2))
End Function

NickHK

"Steve Wood" wrote in message
...
Hi

I have a download from a generic program that sends dates as follows
20061230 and I need to automatically change the formating to read
30/12/2006
so that I can perform other calculations on the date, how can I do this?