Then you need preformatted as text, dates in Excel will always be numerical
and year 0 is Jan 0 1900
and each day is 1 so today's date is the serial number 39584 which means it
is that many days since Jan 0 1900.
so 02/2008 will default to Feb 1 2008.


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom


"LiveUser" wrote in message
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Is there any other way? This will be filled out from a lot of different
people and I am trying to keep it very simple, preferably pre-formatted.

"Peo Sjoblom" wrote:

Precede the entry with an apostrophe ' or format the cell(s) as text
before
typing


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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom



"LiveUser" wrote in message
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I have a cell that I would like to enter 02/2008 referring to
quarter/year.
Everytime I enter the information Excel changes it to Month and year.
If I
format the cell for general information it changes it numbers.

Is there a quarter option?

No months will be entered into this cell. Just quarters and years.