how can I stop Excel Advancing the year by 1 when I enter a date?
I did something which caused a problem with entering dates in Excel. When I
enter a date, it looks fine until I leave the cell. Then the year advances by one. For example if I type in 05/05, when I tab out the cell displays May-06. I have tried right clicking on the cell and selecting the mmmyy selection, but it makes no difference. I also selecting from tried the format dropdown menu. Nothing changed it. the only way I could enter a date and have it stay as entered was to put a quote mark before the numbers. what did I do to cause this problem and how can i fix it? |
how can I stop Excel Advancing the year by 1 when I enter a date?
Hi Priscilla
If you not enter the year Excel use th current year Enter 05/05/05 for the date May-05-05 and format it as mmmyy and you get May-05 -- Regards Ron de Bruin http://www.rondebruin.nl "Priscilla" wrote in message ... I did something which caused a problem with entering dates in Excel. When I enter a date, it looks fine until I leave the cell. Then the year advances by one. For example if I type in 05/05, when I tab out the cell displays May-06. I have tried right clicking on the cell and selecting the mmmyy selection, but it makes no difference. I also selecting from tried the format dropdown menu. Nothing changed it. the only way I could enter a date and have it stay as entered was to put a quote mark before the numbers. what did I do to cause this problem and how can i fix it? |
how can I stop Excel Advancing the year by 1 when I enter a date?
What you enter is not May 2005, it is May 5th current year, so if you want
to enter 05/05 without excel using current year is to use a text representation, precede the entry with an apostrophe ' and enter 'May-05 The reason? Excel uses numbers for dates, 1 is one day and today() Apr 1st 2006 is 38,808 days since Jan 0 1900 (Excel year zero), that means Excel need a date to be entered with date delimiters (dependent on the regional settings of the computer) and it needs year month and day and when you enter 05/05 and omits one necessary ingredient Excel guesses that it is the year and uses current year so what you see when you format it as mmm-yy is excel formatting May 5th 2006 and obviously that would be May-06. So you either have to enter text or enter for instance 05/01/05 and format as mmm-yy and it will display May-05 -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom Northwest Excel Solutions www.nwexcelsolutions.com (remove ^^ from email address) Portland, Oregon "Priscilla" wrote in message ... I did something which caused a problem with entering dates in Excel. When I enter a date, it looks fine until I leave the cell. Then the year advances by one. For example if I type in 05/05, when I tab out the cell displays May-06. I have tried right clicking on the cell and selecting the mmmyy selection, but it makes no difference. I also selecting from tried the format dropdown menu. Nothing changed it. the only way I could enter a date and have it stay as entered was to put a quote mark before the numbers. what did I do to cause this problem and how can i fix it? |
how can I stop Excel Advancing the year by 1 when I enter a date?
Hi Priscilla:
Both Ron and Peo have indicated the correct method of entering dates. However if you have already entered dates using the single quote you can convert them with: =DATE(2000+RIGHT(A1,2),--LEFT(A1,2),1) -- Gary's Student "Priscilla" wrote: I did something which caused a problem with entering dates in Excel. When I enter a date, it looks fine until I leave the cell. Then the year advances by one. For example if I type in 05/05, when I tab out the cell displays May-06. I have tried right clicking on the cell and selecting the mmmyy selection, but it makes no difference. I also selecting from tried the format dropdown menu. Nothing changed it. the only way I could enter a date and have it stay as entered was to put a quote mark before the numbers. what did I do to cause this problem and how can i fix it? |
how can I stop Excel Advancing the year by 1 when I enter a date?
I'm putting my music database in excel I came across a track called
December 1943 what i did is December (1943) in brackets. Priscilla wrote: I did something which caused a problem with entering dates in Excel. When I enter a date, it looks fine until I leave the cell. Then the year advances by one. For example if I type in 05/05, when I tab out the cell displays May-06. I have tried right clicking on the cell and selecting the mmmyy selection, but it makes no difference. I also selecting from tried the format dropdown menu. Nothing changed it. the only way I could enter a date and have it stay as entered was to put a quote mark before the numbers. what did I do to cause this problem and how can i fix it? |
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