Also have a look at this google search thread for ordinal dates and methods of
returning.

Cannot be done through formatting alone. Either formula in a helper cell or
use Ron Rosenfeld's event code.

http://snipurl.com/iwlr


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:54:49 -0400, "Anne Troy" wrote:

The Ordinals man (among other things!):
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/ordinal.htm
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Anne Troy
www.OfficeArticles.com

"Michael" wrote in message
...
Looking to create a custom number format in a cell so that when I put the
date it updates it with the relevent st, nd, rd or th on the end of the
date entered

So that when I enter the
01/10/2005
it would display
1st October 2005

when I enter the
22/10/2005
22nd October 2005

i.e.
st, on the 1, 21, 31;
nd on 2, 22;
rd on the 23
and th on all the remainder of the dates within Excel date display entered
from the cell format

TIA
Michael