Converting text to dates

You have lots of dates to enter in your spreadsheet. This can be tedious when you have to format it correctly. Here is a formula that allows to to quickly enter dates as text.

In the example below, we enter text in column B and convert to dates in column C. The conversion formula for C3 is
=DATEVALUE(LEFT(B3;2)&”/”&MID(B3;3;2)&”/”&RIGHT(B3;2))

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Tomorrow, we will look at how to do this in a macro.

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