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Default Converting number or text to a Date Format


Hi there,

First post.....

I downloaded a file from my database (not access) which outputs the
file to .txt

Using excel I can set each colum for the text and it puts each piece of
data in to a column etc. Very nice.

One of the pieces of data I output from the system is a persons date of
birth, however, it is shown as (an example) 19340101. I can convert this
to something that looks nicer by using
=RIGHT(A1,2)&"/"&MID(A1,5,2)&"/"&LEFT(A1,4) but that doesn't convert
the number in to a date format.

I need to convert 19340101 to 01/01/1934 in a date format that excel
can understand.

Any ideas.

Thanks in advance.

Stewart


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