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    Question Formatting problems from OCR

    I have done an OCR of some pdf's and they imported into an Excel document. Now, my OCR sometimes takes a crap and the dates that populate are often wrong. The formatting gets garbled where I have a date that reads 09/15/2013 and the OCR interprets the / as the number 1 so it looks like 0911512013 in my spreadsheet. Not all of these are like that, and it's a real pain to manually go through the lines to see which ones fouled up. It almost defeats the purpose of the OCR.

    So, my question is, what would I do in the way of making a rule in conditional formatting (or otherwise) that would flag me or auto-correct the wrong dates? It would be helpful if there was a macro, or conditional formatting that would just change the color of the wrong dates so I could manually change them, or could something be done to auto-format them correctly?

    I would appreciate any and all advice on this! Thank you so very much.

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    Re: Formatting problems from OCR

    Attach a sample workbook. Make sure there is just enough data to make it clear what is needed. Include a BEFORE sheet and an AFTER sheet in the workbook if needed to show the process you're trying to complete or automate. Make sure your desired results are demonstrated, mock them up manually if needed. Remember to desensitize the data.

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