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Date format using VBA
I would like to format a range of cells using VBA to only
accept the mm/dd/yy date format. Also, is it possible to pre-populate each of those cells where the user would see " / / " and they just fill in the spaces? |
Date format using VBA
Sounds like a bad idea. Dates are not stored as mm/dd/yy - they are stored
as a number of days from a base date. So any valid date format is acceptable - Excel will see this as a date and generate the date serial. You can format the cell to show mm/dd/yy format - but it is counter productive to try to force the user to enter the data in a specific format. If you put a zero in the cell it will display as 00/00/00 But that is about as close to / / as you can get unless you either put in / / manually or produced it with a formula and in either case, it would get overwritten by the user making an entry. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "Jeff" wrote in message ... I would like to format a range of cells using VBA to only accept the mm/dd/yy date format. Also, is it possible to pre-populate each of those cells where the user would see " / / " and they just fill in the spaces? |
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