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