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Simple Date Display Question
Hello,
This is a simple question I think. I have an Excel worksheet that is displaying dates in the Excel standard date format (five digit number). However, when I click on a cell, the date is displayed in m/d/yyyy format in the formula bar. How do I get Excel to display it that way in the worksheet??? Note that the cells are formatted as date, with mm/dd/yy selected. Thanks, Seth |
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You could always try just formatting the cell as text and then enter the date
as mm/dd/yyyy. Or maybe I am not getting what you are asking. "Seth" wrote: Hello, This is a simple question I think. I have an Excel worksheet that is displaying dates in the Excel standard date format (five digit number). However, when I click on a cell, the date is displayed in m/d/yyyy format in the formula bar. How do I get Excel to display it that way in the worksheet??? Note that the cells are formatted as date, with mm/dd/yy selected. Thanks, Seth |
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Thanks for the attempt BJB, but I don't think I phrased my question well. I
have a spreadsheet with thousands of dates, all entered in mm/dd/yyyy format. Yesterday, I hit something on the keyboard, or a menu item, or something... and every date in the spreadsheet changed to a five digit number. I realize that Excel stores dates as numbers, and then just displays them as mm/dd/yyyy when you ask it too. However, I can't get it to display them that way; no matter what I do in this spreadsheet, they display as five digit numbers. Hopefully that cleared it up a little. Thanks again, "BJB" wrote: You could always try just formatting the cell as text and then enter the date as mm/dd/yyyy. Or maybe I am not getting what you are asking. "Seth" wrote: Hello, This is a simple question I think. I have an Excel worksheet that is displaying dates in the Excel standard date format (five digit number). However, when I click on a cell, the date is displayed in m/d/yyyy format in the formula bar. How do I get Excel to display it that way in the worksheet??? Note that the cells are formatted as date, with mm/dd/yy selected. Thanks, Seth |
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If it helps anyone, I posted a partial copy of the file online at:
http://www.hartmancox.com/log.zip There aren't any macro's in it... |
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Any chance that you toggled the sheet into "formula" view.
<Tools <Options <View tab, And *UNCHECK* "Formulas". The toggle is <Ctrl <` That's a single quote, which on my keyboard, is above the <Tab key and under the <Esc key. -- HTH, RD ============================================== Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ============================================== "Seth" wrote in message ... Thanks for the attempt BJB, but I don't think I phrased my question well. I have a spreadsheet with thousands of dates, all entered in mm/dd/yyyy format. Yesterday, I hit something on the keyboard, or a menu item, or something... and every date in the spreadsheet changed to a five digit number. I realize that Excel stores dates as numbers, and then just displays them as mm/dd/yyyy when you ask it too. However, I can't get it to display them that way; no matter what I do in this spreadsheet, they display as five digit numbers. Hopefully that cleared it up a little. Thanks again, "BJB" wrote: You could always try just formatting the cell as text and then enter the date as mm/dd/yyyy. Or maybe I am not getting what you are asking. "Seth" wrote: Hello, This is a simple question I think. I have an Excel worksheet that is displaying dates in the Excel standard date format (five digit number). However, when I click on a cell, the date is displayed in m/d/yyyy format in the formula bar. How do I get Excel to display it that way in the worksheet??? Note that the cells are formatted as date, with mm/dd/yy selected. Thanks, Seth |
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Thanks, Rag... that was it.
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Appreciate the feed-back.
-- Regards, RD -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please keep all correspondence within the Group, so all may benefit! ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Seth" wrote in message ... Thanks, Rag... that was it. |
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