k, IT returned a date as the answer, but with the dashes around it. I also
wanted to know how to change between two conventional date formats quickly
without using the mouse, cos i use two different formats yeah.

ThanKs!

Peo Sjoblom wrote:
It may look like dates but it isn't dates in excel sense, you can make any
calculations, as an example
put 101499 in A1, it will display as 10/14/1999, now in A2 put 101699,
displays as 10/16/1999
now if these were dates that one could make calculations with

=A2-A1

formatted as General would return 2 (for 2 days), in your case it returns
200?

so you can use them as display a number that looks like a date but you can't
do anything with it
if you want to cut down on the usage of delimiters you can use Chip
Pearson's macro

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm

Hello Group,

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What's up with that!??


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