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Date Format question in excel
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I have thousands of records in Column A with the Date written in text like 20190131 and not an official data format. Is there a formula I can use to change them all to official dates so I can filter and group them in pivot tables and such?
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2025-02-01T14:25:07+00:00 -
HansV 462.6K Reputation points2025-02-01T13:49:44+00:00 With a value such as 20190131 in D2, the formula
=DATE(LEFT(D2, 4), MID(D2, 5, 2), RIGHT(D2, 2))
will return the corresponding date,