Well, lots of times, I enter the date, then hit ctrl-z to undo, then do those
steps. <vbg

It can be quicker than formatting the cell.

Niek Otten wrote:

Nice one, Dave!
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Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"Dave Peterson" wrote in message ...
|I usually like mm/dd/yyyy and I've given up fighting excel.
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| If a cell is going to contain a date, I'll do this:
| ctrl-;
| (to enter today's date--and change the format)
| then type the new date.
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| Kruppy wrote:
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| When a enter a date in Excel 2003 it formats it (by default) as 22-Nov. The
| short date regional setting in windows is 11/22/07. When I go to change the
| date format the format that is highlighted is Custom dd-mmm. Any idea
| where this comes from and how I can change it.
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| Dave Peterson

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