excel data into oracle through sql loader

Hi lists,

I need to load the excel sheet data to oracle tables. A date column is improperly entered by users.

In the excel sheet the date column was filled up without using hyphens or slashes
the data is like this

todays date: 10th Dec 2001
(it is supposed to be 10/12/2001 or 10-Dec-2001 etc...)

But it was entered in the cells as 101201 When I formatted the data using the excel option cells -> format

The data it is displaying in a strage format: 1/27/2177

All the date values are displayed improperly.

Does anybody come across such a situation. How to format the date cells in excelsheet.
(should I change any options for the sheet)

Thnx in advance,

Srinivas

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