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Default Impossible Date Formatting Requested?

Well, it's obvious that I'm not "The Great Communicator" : (

The part about my not getting to set the contents of the cell was definitely
not expressed clearly (if at all) in my original post but the reqirement
that Excel still consider the result as a date I thought was pretty well
stated -

<snip
doing a date-to-text conversion and then using line wrap formatting of the
cell would "work" - EXCEPT that the date has to stay an Excel date,
not a text string.
<snip

Sorry for any misunderstandings - I'm not trying to offend anyone!

James

"William" wrote in message
...
James

Your original post required a cell to be split showing the date and time.

My
post attempted to address that issue. Are you now saying there are further
requirements? If so, please post them.

--
XL2002
Regards

William



"James Cox" wrote in message
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| William -
|
| That looked like it had promise, but I don't get the option to set the
cell
| contents - just to format what's already there.
|
| Also, a check on what Excel thinks is in the cell - using the following

in
| the VBA editor's Immediate pane
|
| ?isdate(range("a1").Value)
|
| gives a value of "False" so it's no longer a date that Excel can use...
|
| Thanks for giving it a shot!
|
| James
|
|
| "William" wrote in message
| ...
| Hi James
|
| Sub DateAndTime()
| Range("A1") = Format(Now, "dd mmm yy") & _
| Chr(10) & Format(Now, "hh mm ss")
| End Sub
|
|
| --
| XL2002
| Regards
|
| William
|
|

|
| "James Cox" wrote in message
| ...
| | Dontcha just love users? : )
| |
| | I've got one that wants to display Excel dates in
| |
| | 03-Jul-04 09:14:22
| |
| | format, but wants the date and time "stacked" in a single cell, as

in
| |
| | 03-Jul-04
| | 09:14:22
| |
| | doing a date-to-text conversion and then using line wrap formatting

on
| the
| | cell would "work" - EXCEPT that the date has to stay an Excel date,
not
| a
| | text string.
| |
| | Given Excel's "feature" of displaying dates as ######'s if the cell

is
| not
| | wide enough, I can't get any leverage on a way to do what he wants.

I
| had
| | thought that the ability to embed text into date (and number

formats)
| might
| | be a way to do this, but I can't find a way to get an active CR-LF
| between
| | the halves of the datetime.
| |
| | Anyone have any additional ideas on how to do this?
| |
| | James
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