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Old June 4th, 2010, 02:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.excel.misc
Tommy
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Default Formatting Dates from Text to Numbers

I receive data daily with dates in the following formats: dd/mm/yyyy,
d/m/yyyy,d/mm/yyyyy, or dd/m/yyyy... The values actually are text vs.
numbers.

Regardless I use text to columns, to separate the values into three columns.
Then I use =date(year, month, day), actually =date(a2,b2,c2) to populate the
date in one field. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to do this
better or faster?

Thanks,

Tommy