What you want to enter is not a date (to Excel). It's two numbers separated
by a slash. So your choices a

1. Precede your entry with an apostrophe (')
2. Preformat your cells as Text.

Regards,
Fred.

"Chris762" wrote in message
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In Excel I want to just show a date as dd/mm in a cell. Every time I enter
this Excel shows the number in dd/mm/yy format, even when I change the
cell
to use the General format. Any idea how I get Excel to show the number as
I
want?