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I am dumping some information out of our ERP system into Excel. &nbsp;Within our ERP system the date is written as 20130129. &nbsp;Excel views this as a text field. &nbsp;I need to covert this to a date format and have the date be shown as 01/29/2013. &nbsp;Any suggestions on how to do this?
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I am dumping some information out of our ERP system into Excel.  Within our ERP system the date is written as 20130129.  Excel views this as a text field.  I need to covert this to a date format and have the date be shown as 01/29/2013.  Any suggestions on how to do this?

Converting 20130116 to a US Date format in Excel

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Microsoft Excel

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Microsoft Office

A spreadsheet is an interactive computer application program for organization, analysis and storage of data in tabular form. Spreadsheets developed as computerized simulations of paper accounting worksheets. The program operates on data represented as cells of an array, organized in rows and columns. Each cell of the array may contain either numeric or text data, or the results of formulas that automatically calculate and display a value based on the contents of other cells.