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If you can get it to yyyy-mm-dd excel will recognize it. 
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If you can get it to yyyy-mm-dd excel will recognize it.

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I have an excel query that returns data from my Pervasive db. However the date format is not recognized as a date by excel. How can I convert the date format so that it is recognized by excel. I would prefer to have it converted with the query statement but if that can't be done I would have to convert it once it is returned to excel.<br />
Here is the date format it returns:<br />
YYYYMMDD <br />
so Feb 19 2011 is shown as 20110219
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I have an excel query that returns data from my Pervasive db. However the date format is not recognized as a date by excel. How can I convert the date format so that it is recognized by excel. I would prefer to have it converted with the query statement but if that can't be done I would have to convert it once it is returned to excel.
Here is the date format it returns:
YYYYMMDD 
so Feb 19 2011 is shown as 20110219

Excel query to convert date format

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