hi, im sure this is a silly question, but its driving me nuts. i need
to enter a string of dates in a column. i want them to appear
01/01/2001. i formated the cells with the date format, but when i type
in 010101 it formates to really wierd things, like 08/12/1955. do i
have to put the slashes in, or is there a way for it to do it for me?

thanks


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If you already have the formatting set you should only have to enter the
date such as 1jul which will produce 07/01/2006. If you want any other
year other than 06 you will have to enter the year also as in 1jul04
which would then give you 07/01/2004. Again depends on the way you have
it formatted as to how it appears. Hope this helps.

Ed


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Either use the slashes or VBA code if you wish to enter 010101 as a date.

Chip Pearson has code at his site.

http://www.cpearson.com/excel/DateTimeEntry.htm


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:01:14 -0400, RAPPEL
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hi, im sure this is a silly question, but its driving me nuts. i need
to enter a string of dates in a column. i want them to appear
01/01/2001. i formated the cells with the date format, but when i type
in 010101 it formates to really wierd things, like 08/12/1955. do i
have to put the slashes in, or is there a way for it to do it for me?

thanks