Look he
http://xldynamic.com/source/xld.QDEDownload.html
or he
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm
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Kind regards,
Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel
"kang" wrote in message ...
| other than entering 'yyyy-mm-dd' as date,
| are there ways to enter dates "yyymmdd"
|
| if I enter, for example, 20070101 and change the cell format to yyyymmdd
| and the cell becomes lots of #.