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    Turning '20121101' into recognized date format

    I can't get my database imports into a format Excel will automatically recognize as a date.
    They all look like this:
    20121101
    20121001
    20120901 etc...

    The day is actually immatterial; it's always the first. I only need the month and year.

    I tried recording a macro that would rewrite the date, but it just did the same thing in every cell (and didn't seem to serve the ultimate purpose of of making the cells date-recognizable under the "format cell" option any way).

    Thanks for any help you can provide!

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    Re: Turning '20121101' into recognized date format

    You could try this in cell D2 then fill down: =DATE(LEFT(C2,4),MID(C2,5,2),RIGHT(C2,2))

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    Re: Turning '20121101' into recognized date format

    How about:

    =Concatenate(mid(cellreference,4,2),"/",right(cellreference,2),"/",left(cellreference,4))

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    Re: Turning '20121101' into recognized date format

    in D2, copied down...
    =DATE(LEFT(C2,4),MID(C2,5,2),RIGHT(C2,2))
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    [Solved]Re: Turning '20121101' into recognized date format

    Thank you guys for your speedy help!
    Moo-your fix worked!
    Bill-I got a NAME? error, for some reason, with yours.

    Really appreciate this forum. You guys helped me a ton here...
    Best,
    -Travis

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    Re: Turning '20121101' into recognized date format

    CriticalBill,

    While your formula, with a minor modification (change the first 4 in your formula to a 5) will produce something that looks like a date, it is not actually treated as such by Excel. It is a text string. You would have to apply a mathematical operation to it to make it a number, such as *1 added to the end of your formula. Then you would have to change the format of the new cells to Date.

    By using the DATE formula I proposed, it actually converts the text to date format all at once - no need for additional steps.

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    Re: Turning '20121101' into recognized date format

    Glad to help, roykosghost!

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