25/01/2012 how to change this date

[djmatok]

I'm new to excel and I am trying to covert a list of dates that are in the below form:
25/01/2012
day-month-year

I want to change or convert to month/day/year. how can I do this? I tried converting into a date or text to then convert to a date and I was unable to. please help!

[FDibbins]

i used this formula in I4. the "dates" you have are actually text, not values, so the formula converts them to date values....

=DATE(RIGHT(A4,4),MID(A4,4,2),LEFT(A4,2))

copy this down. you can then copy/paste values if you want, and then replace your original "dates"

[djmatok]

thank you so much!!! it worked!!!!!!!!

[FDibbins]

you'r welcome. If this answered your question, please take a moment to mark the tread as "solved" - it helps keep things neet and tidy lol, and consider adding the reputation to those that helped (see points 2 & 3 below

[Cutter]

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