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After importing credit card info from my bank, all I see is
"20080320120000[0:GMT]". I want that to read 03/20/08. How in the world can
I do that efficiently? Please help!

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=DATE(LEFT(A1,4),MID(A1,5,2),MID(A1,7,2))
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=--TEXT(LEFT(A1,8),"0000\/00\/00")

format cell as mm/dd/yy


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After importing credit card info from my bank, all I see is
"20080320120000[0:GMT]". I want that to read 03/20/08. How in the world can
I do that efficiently? Please help!

Thank you,
Eric

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"tenorofchange" wrote:

After importing credit card info from my bank, all I see is
"20080320120000[0:GMT]". I want that to read 03/20/08. How in the world can
I do that efficiently? Please help!

Thank you,
Eric


=--TEXT(LEFT(A1,8),"0000\/00\/00")

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=--TEXT(LEFT(A422,8),"00-00-00")

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"tenorofchange" wrote:

After importing credit card info from my bank, all I see is
"20080320120000[0:GMT]". I want that to read 03/20/08. How in the world can
I do that efficiently? Please help!

Thank you,
Eric


=--TEXT(LEFT(A1,8),"0000\/00\/00")

Regards
Bosco



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=--TEXT(LEFT(A422,8),"00-00-00")

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After importing credit card info from my bank, all I see is
"20080320120000[0:GMT]". I want that to read 03/20/08. How in the world can
I do that efficiently? Please help!

Thank you,
Eric

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