Text to date

ryan7

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Office Version
  1. 2016
Platform
  1. Windows
I have report with 8000+ rows.
Cell K2 has a date in the format as, 201608.
How do I change this into date format? Aug-2016 ?
 

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One way
Excel Formula:
=DATE(LEFT(K2,4),RIGHT(K2,2),1)
then change cell format to "mmm-yyyy"
 
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