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Howard - JC Publishing - 09 Apr 2008 17:11 GMT

I am importing data from our database into Excel. The database program
stores dates as a string such as 20080124. I want to convert that string the
mm/dd/yyyy.

Thank you.

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timmg - 09 Apr 2008 17:30 GMT

On Apr 9, 11:11 am, Howard - JC Publishing
<HowardJCPublish...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> I am importing data from our database into Excel. The database program
> stores dates as a string such as 20080124. I want to convert that string the
> mm/dd/yyyy.
>
> Thank you.

Assuming the value in A1 the formulae:

=MID(A1,5,2)&"/"&RIGHT(A1,2) &"/" &LEFT(A1,4) will produce a text
value

and

=DATE(LEFT(A1,4),MID(A1,5,2),RIGHT(A1,2)) will produce a date that can
be formatted to what you want

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Ron Rosenfeld - 09 Apr 2008 18:03 GMT

>I am importing data from our database into Excel. The database program
>stores dates as a string such as 20080124. I want to convert that string the
>mm/dd/yyyy.
>
>Thank you.

First convert it to a real Excel date:

=DATE(INT(A1/10^4),MOD(INT(A1/10^2),100),MOD(A1,100))

Then, either format the cell as you wish, or use the TEXT function:

=TEXT(DATE(INT(A1/10^4),MOD(INT(A1/10^2),100),MOD(A1,100)),"mm/dd/yyyy")

--ron

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Gord Dibben - 09 Apr 2008 20:20 GMT

Data>Text to columns>Next>Next>Column Data Format>Date>YMD and Finish

Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

>I am importing data from our database into Excel. The database program
>stores dates as a string such as 20080124. I want to convert that string the
>mm/dd/yyyy.
>
>Thank you.

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