Hi, first post here, so be gentle!
I have a row of months, that have been imported from another
spreadsheet. The problem i have is that they all have the following
format on first glance. i.e. "Feb-07". However, when I click on the
cell itself on one of the colums, it gives a format in the formula bar
of "01/02/06". What I need to do is give all the cells the format of,
say Custom "mmm-yy". However, try as i might when i try and apply the
formatting, paste special etc etc it does not convert into reading say
"Feb-07" in the formula bar.

Any thoughts?
Many thanks
Dan


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Hi, first post here, so be gentle!
I have a row of months, that have been imported from another
spreadsheet. The problem i have is that they all have the following
format on first glance. i.e. "Feb-07". However, when I click on the
cell itself on one of the colums, it gives a format in the formula bar
of "01/02/06". What I need to do is give all the cells the format of,
say Custom "mmm-yy". However, try as i might when i try and apply the
formatting, paste special etc etc it does not convert into reading say
"Feb-07" in the formula bar.


Hi Dan,

You cannot changin formatting in formula bar. In formula bar you will always
dates in the format "01/02/06".
The only thing you can do to have "Feb-07" in formula bar is changing dates
to text:
just digit in a cell 'Feb-07 (be aware af the single quote before of the F:
you have to digit it...)
But in this way you have no more dates, but text.

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(I'm not sure of names of menus, options and commands, because
translating from the Italian version of Excel...)

Hope I helped you.

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

Ciao

Franz Verga from Italy