This might solve the typing and "appearance" but produce woeful results, if
he needs to run any calculations on those "dates" - and he didn't emphasize
that he do not...
Micky


"Joe User" wrote:

"Billns" wrote:
If the dates are all last year, why do you even need to display the
year or care which one it really is? Format the column as mm/dd.

Or if JCarlos would like the date to __appear__ as 2009, enter dates in the
form mm/dd, but use the Custom format mm/dd/"09" or something like that.


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"Billns" wrote in message
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On 4/3/2010 9:39 AM, JCarlosJr wrote:
Hi gang,

Its tax time and I'm trying to enter my expenses ito EXCEL for last year
(don't even remind me I should do this as the year progresses).

Anyway, for speed of entry I would like to enter just mm/dd. Excel will
complete the year for me as 2010.

I could change the system date, but this has bad reprocussions, especaill
when multi-tasking.

I could create a column which subtracts 365 from my entry column and then
paste values from my "dummy" column into my entry column.

BUT, does anyone have a better suggestion to force dates entered on a
specific book, sheet, or even colum to s different default year than the
system date year?


If the dates are all last year, why do you even need to display the year
or care which one it really is? Format the column as mm/dd.

Bill

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