change text formatting

alethea2000

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Hi I am going to reword this another way

I have the following data

08/18/2005
06/14/2004
07/25/2003
07/30/2003

and excel recognises it as straight text but i need it to be in uk data format, does anyone know how to do it as custom dd\mm\yyyy won't work as excel doesn't recognise it as a date. if you copy above into a spreadsheet you'll see what i mean,

i so want to go and pick up my baby but can't until i figure this out, what a nightmare and thank you :cry:
 

Excel Facts

What is the fastest way to copy a formula?
If A2:A50000 contain data. Enter a formula in B2. Select B2. Double-click the Fill Handle and Excel will shoot the formula down to B50000.
If it is truly in TEXT format, this function will convert it to TEXT which is your UK date format.

Assuming the data is in cell A1:
=MID(A1,4,3)&LEFT(A1,3)&RIGHT(A1,4)
 
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Hi,

Two options:

--a formula: =DATE(RIGHT(A1,4),LEFT(A1,2),MID(A1,4,2))
format as you wish


--Data - Text to columns, in last step you can choose date format.
 
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Click the column header and choose Data|Text to Columns from the menu. At Step 3 choose Date MDY and click Finish.
 
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