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Default cell date value

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"Jacob Skaria" wrote in message
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Try

=Format(range("start_Date"),"dd-mm-yyyy")

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"greg" wrote:

OK,
this must be an easy one.
I have a named cell. Start_date
The cell is formated as date. with a date value 7/1/2010
when trying to get the cell value I do not get the date
range("start_date").Value2
It comes out:
40360

so must be something easy.
anyone have an answer?
thanks