I am sorry if this is a stupid question but here goes .

If I type in dates as 010106 it gives me 01/09/27
This was raised in an earlier Question I tried the reply by  Ragdyer which was
(If you were going to enter a *very* large number of dates into a column,
where you might consider it worthwhile using several *extra* steps in Text
To Columns (TTC), you could enter your dates using *6* digits (to avoid
ambiguity), *without* delimiters.

This entails a whole other procedure, so the saving wouldn't be realized
unless the number of dates to be entered was quite large.

For example, you could enter dates as mmddyy.
041705
121504
010105
101206
092504
122505

Then, select the cells, and
<Data> <TextToColumns> <Next> <Next>

Click on "Date", and make sure "MDY" shows in the window,
Then <Finish>.

You've now made your 6 digit date entries recognizable to XL as *the* dates
that you want, not "morphed" into dates XL chooses.)

It did not work for me can someone please help me