Ron,

Okay, but will setting the international xlDateOrder help? And how do I do
that in my Macro.



"Ron Rosenfeld" wrote:

On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 00:52:04 -0700, Nils Titley
wrote:

Thanks to all for responding but I am wondering. Will I have a problem with
12/02/08. This is not December 02,08 but it is Feb 12, 08. The dd/mm/yy has
already caused a problem. The macro is being used in South Africa. I had to
force format on a date because it was changing the format.

The code below produced 02/12/08 when it is 12/02/08. It worked only after
I changed below to Format(RunDate(MyNum), "dd/mm/yy")

With ActiveCell.Offset(0, 0)
.NumberFormat = "dd/mm/yy"
.Value = RunDate(MyNum)
.HorizontalAlignment = xlCenter

How do I force the day of the week?

Thanks , I hope I am making sense.

I believe you may be misunderstanding how dates are being entered into Excel.

Excel stores dates as serial numbers with 1 = 1 Jan 1900. It then formats that
result depending on the cell format.

However, a date expressed like 12/02/08 is ambiguous. So when you enter that
value into a cell, Excel has to decide if you mean 12 Feb or 2 Dec. It does
this by looking at the date settings -- NOT in Excel -- but at Control
Panel/Regional and Language Options.

So if your code is producing 2 Dec when you expect it to be producing 12 Feb,
you need to look at the output of RunDate(MyNum). If the numeric value is
39490, then it is returning 12 Feb; if 39784, then 2 Dec.

If it is returning the desired date, then
.numberformat = "dddd" will return the correct day of the week.
--ron