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November 14, 2021 - 10:24 pm
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I have a column with a lot of dates
In improper structure -
Dodge 20080106
I need to convert them to normal structure - 06/01/2008
I would appreciate help
Leah

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I need to convert this within the Power Query
How do you do that?

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Hello,

Have you tried using the DATE function? You will also need to use the LEFT, MID and RIGHT functions to get the values for the date.

=DATE(LEFT(F2,4),MID(F2,5,2),RIGHT(F2,2))

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Hello Lea,

Ceck this Microsoft article about #date function in Power Query.

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