date format
 

How do I keep a date in the format Sep 08 (for september 2008)? Excel keeps
changing it to 01/09/2008.

date format
 

You can apply a custom format of:

mmm yy

to the cell.

Alternatively, pre-format the cell as Text, or enter as 'Sep 08 - the
apostrophe tells Excel to treat the entry as text, but it will not
show in the cell.

Hope this helps.

Pete

On Jan 16, 12:38*am, ec17 wrote:
How do I keep a date in the format Sep 08 (for september 2008)? Excel keeps
changing it to 01/09/2008.