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Old April 27th, 2010, 04:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
SherryS
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Default Modify general format to date format.

When importing from payroll, it gives me all dates formatted as general
numbers (i.e. 07/17/2009 is presented as 7172009. Is there any way to
convert these numbers into dates?

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Old April 27th, 2010, 05:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Jacob Skaria
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Default Modify general format to date format.

If your Windows Regional Settings recognise a format of mddyyyy, you can
apply the below formula and format the formula cell to date..

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

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Jacob (MVP - Excel)


"SherryS" wrote:

When importing from payroll, it gives me all dates formatted as general
numbers (i.e. 07/17/2009 is presented as 7172009. Is there any way to
convert these numbers into dates?

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Old April 27th, 2010, 01:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.worksheet.functions
Teethless mama
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Default Modify general format to date format.

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


"SherryS" wrote:

When importing from payroll, it gives me all dates formatted as general
numbers (i.e. 07/17/2009 is presented as 7172009. Is there any way to
convert these numbers into dates?

 




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