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Default Passing Excel formats in VBA date variables

ExcelMonkey,

StartDate is just a date variable. It contains a date and that's all - no
formatting.
The format in the tooltip you're seeing is a format defined by your regional
settings.

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"ExcelMonkey " wrote in message
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I have a start date in my spreadsheet model that is formatted as follows
(m/d/yyyy h:mm). I have named the cell "xlStartDate" I have a VBA
variable that is called StartDate. I pass the excel variable to the
vba variable

Dim StartDate As Date
StartDate = Range("xlStartDate")


When I put my cursor over teh StartDate varible it says 01/01/2004.
Why does it not have the formatting of m/d/yyyy h:mm?


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