Changing Format of Odd Date Field

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I have a download that posted dates in a way that are hard to read and hard to sort. The cell on the left is how it looks in the download and I would like to make it look like the date on the right. Could anyone help?

Much appreciated,
Eric

2014101510/15/2014

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if it always starts with a 4 digit year, mid(A1,5,99) will give in your example 1015

question is january 7 0107 or 17

once you split it up use concatenate and include the two "/"
 
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oldbrewer i have the month and year in front but i dont know how to use concatenate to indlude the two "/" and would the year still show up?
 
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mmm...ok...how about =--TEXT(A3,"0000\/00\/00") formatted as a date ?

what are your region settings? US ? UK ?

I'm just curious because it works for me both ways
 
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my settings are US and this is what put in form my formula =--TEXT(Table1[[#This Row],[Origination Date]],"00\/00\/0000") and ended up with,
#VALUE!

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ok, maybe...

=0+TEXT(Table1[Origination Date],"00-00-00") ?

assuming the formula is for outside the table...

If its an additional column inside the table something like...

=TEXT([Origination Date],"00-00-00")
 
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Try Data>Text to columns...

Select the column with the dates, goto Data>Text to columns, on the 3rd step select YMD from the column data format dropdown and press Finish.
 
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