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How do you turn a serial number into a date?
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lea cohen
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May 3, 2021 - 9:22 am
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In the attachment - I took a table that I brought from software into Excel
I downloaded all the unnecessary columns and left only the date
The date is written to me in a number - how do you turn it into a date structure ???

Thanks so much for the reply, Leah

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You want column B to look like column A?

202104 only has the year and month in it?

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Hi Lea,

So the number 202104 is what you want to convert to a date?  I assume that represents April 2021 so there is no day specified, in which case I'll just ise the 1st of the month.

You can use this formula

=DATEVALUE(LEFT(TEXT(B2,"0"),4)&"/"&RIGHT(TEXT(B2,"0"),2)&"/01")

and set the cell to Date type - see attached.

regards

Phil

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Just as an alternative formula:

=TEXT(B2,"0000-00""-01""")+0

then format as a Date.

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