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Converting fields to date in design view

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    Converting fields to date in design view

    I need to convert data that looks like this 08162008 it's formated as text and needs to look like this 08/16/2008 there are multiple dates and years within this field.

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    Re: Converting fields to date in design view

    Try this - where a1 has your text format date data.

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    Re: Converting fields to date in design view

    Try this:

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