The digits typed do not match the output, I wonder why.
I also tried to type 000000 and that defaulted to Jan1 1900.
then I input 010101 which results into 8/27/27 , for 8/27/1927. this
really baffles me, as I tried to Clear All to no avail.
thanks for your help

You have to put in a date separator to get dates, such as

01/01/01

or

15/01/2004

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

"itqueen" wrote in message
...
The digits typed do not match the output, I wonder why.
I also tried to type 000000 and that defaulted to Jan1 1900.
then I input 010101 which results into 8/27/27 , for 8/27/1927. this
really baffles me, as I tried to Clear All to no avail.
thanks for your help

dah, thanks, Bob. yup, the separators...that about doubles the time during
huge amount of data entries. So I did the right thing ... created a special
format "00 00 00" , with only 6 digits needed for input.


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

You have to put in a date separator to get dates, such as

01/01/01

or

15/01/2004

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

"itqueen" wrote in message
...
The digits typed do not match the output, I wonder why.
I also tried to type 000000 and that defaulted to Jan1 1900.
then I input 010101 which results into 8/27/27 , for 8/27/1927. this
really baffles me, as I tried to Clear All to no avail.
thanks for your help

If you have a lot of dates to input, you could take a look at
http://xldynamic.com/source/xld.QDEDownload.html, might be just what you
need.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

"itqueencanada" wrote in message
...
dah, thanks, Bob. yup, the separators...that about doubles the time during
huge amount of data entries. So I did the right thing ... created a
special
format "00 00 00" , with only 6 digits needed for input.


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

You have to put in a date separator to get dates, such as

01/01/01

or

15/01/2004

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

"itqueen" wrote in message
...
The digits typed do not match the output, I wonder why.
I also tried to type 000000 and that defaulted to Jan1 1900.
then I input 010101 which results into 8/27/27 , for 8/27/1927.
this
really baffles me, as I tried to Clear All to no avail.
thanks for your help

great link, thanx

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

If you have a lot of dates to input, you could take a look at
http://xldynamic.com/source/xld.QDEDownload.html, might be just what you
need.

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

"itqueencanada" wrote in message
...
dah, thanks, Bob. yup, the separators...that about doubles the time during
huge amount of data entries. So I did the right thing ... created a
special
format "00 00 00" , with only 6 digits needed for input.


"Bob Phillips" wrote:

You have to put in a date separator to get dates, such as

01/01/01

or

15/01/2004

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

"itqueen" wrote in message
...
The digits typed do not match the output, I wonder why.
I also tried to type 000000 and that defaulted to Jan1 1900.
then I input 010101 which results into 8/27/27 , for 8/27/1927.
this
really baffles me, as I tried to Clear All to no avail.
thanks for your help

So aside from the QDE tool, Excel(2000) does not have an input mask for dates
like it has for SS# or zip codes. My data is very simple and do not
anticipate calculating on the dates.

"Bob Phillips" wrote:

You have to put in a date separator to get dates, such as

01/01/01

or

15/01/2004

--
HTH

Bob Phillips

"itqueen" wrote in message
...
The digits typed do not match the output, I wonder why.
I also tried to type 000000 and that defaulted to Jan1 1900.
then I input 010101 which results into 8/27/27 , for 8/27/1927. this
really baffles me, as I tried to Clear All to no avail.
thanks for your help