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Default enter date with year first

Need to enter the date as follows 2007/03/26. Excel will not allow that to
happen in any format. What is the trick.
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Default enter date with year first

use a custom format yyyy/mm/dd
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Need to enter the date as follows 2007/03/26. Excel will not allow that to
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Default enter date with year first

In format enter a custom date like;
yyyy/mm/dd
this should work for you

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Need to enter the date as follows 2007/03/26. Excel will not allow that to
happen in any format. What is the trick.

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