Date Format

[aozora]

Hi all,
I have the column of date in general/text format as "20080402", how can i
change it into date format, is there any format to change directly?
Thanks a lot

 

[Dave Peterson]

Select the column
Data|text to columns (xl2003 menus)
fixed width, but don't add any lines and remove all that excel guessed.
Choose date
YMD (or YDM if that sample was 2008-Feb-04)

And format the cell using the nice date format you like.

 

[Mike H]

See your other post

 

[HARSHAWARDHAN. S .SHASTRI]

As your original data is in text format , pl use following formula.

=DATE(LEFT(A1,4),MID(A1,5,2),RIGHT(A1,2))

 

[Rick Rothstein]

Here is a formula that is a little shorter and with 3 less function calls...

=--TEXT(A1,"0000-00-00")