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Gord Dibben Gord Dibben is offline
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Default hyphen to forward slashes?

"It" I assume is Excel.

Are you entering Dates like 2-12-2006 which Excel changes to 2/12/2006?

Windows Regional Settings and Languages governs how dates are entered.

Change your "short date" to use hyphens.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:16:01 -0700, bailbust63
wrote:

how do i stop it from changing my hyphen to forward slashes?