Just making the text string 2005-01-01 into a number that can be compared
with another number

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Regards,


Peo Sjoblom

"Bev" wrote in message
...
I have the following formula - which works correctly,
=IF(F6<--"2005-01-01","No","Yes"), F6 is a date ... my question is, what
does
the -- signify in the equation?