Hi All,

Using Excel 2007 I have a combo box with a row source of dates linked to a
column of worksheet cells. The cells on the worksheet are UK formatted as
dd/mm/yy and appear as such. The form opens and when a user clicks on the
combo box the dates can be viewed correctly - so far so good. The problem I
need help with is when the user (me) selects a date from the list it appears
as a date serial number and not in the anticipated format. Any help with this
would be greatly appreciated.

Regards - Div

Div

It appears as a serial date where? If it is on a worksheet just format it,
if it arrives into a variable in your code you may need to specifically
parse it, e.g

Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
Dim myUKDate As String
myUKDate = Format(Me.ComboBox1.Value, "dd/mm/yyyy")
MsgBox myUKDate
End Sub
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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
DTHIS
web: www.excelusergroup.org
web: www.nickhodge.co.uk





"Div" <u43652@uwe wrote in message news:844d1c0356ed4@uwe...
Hi All,

Using Excel 2007 I have a combo box with a row source of dates linked to a
column of worksheet cells. The cells on the worksheet are UK formatted as
dd/mm/yy and appear as such. The form opens and when a user clicks on the
combo box the dates can be viewed correctly - so far so good. The problem
I
need help with is when the user (me) selects a date from the list it
appears
as a date serial number and not in the anticipated format. Any help with
this
would be greatly appreciated.

Regards - Div

Many thanks Nick. Being new to any form of programming I had pondered over
the solution for many weeks. About 2 hours after posting my original message
I got to the conclusion with regards the use of formatting. However your
solution is far more elegant and efficient so again thanks.

If it's not too much of a cheek what I really had desired was the following
(again within Excel 2007):

On a userform I would like to populate a combobox with dates for the previous
28 days starting from the current date (i.e. todays date) but absent from
that list is any day which is a Sunday - all via VBA.

Any ideas?

Regards - Div

Nick Hodge wrote:
Div

It appears as a serial date where? If it is on a worksheet just format it,
if it arrives into a variable in your code you may need to specifically
parse it, e.g

Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
Dim myUKDate As String
myUKDate = Format(Me.ComboBox1.Value, "dd/mm/yyyy")
MsgBox myUKDate
End Sub
Hi All,

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Regards - Div

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Div

You can use the Initialize() event of the userform like so (Change the name
of the combobox to the name you have)

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
Dim cb As ComboBox
Dim x As Integer, iDayNo As Integer

Set cb = Me.ComboBox1

For x = 0 To 27
iDayNo = Application.WorksheetFunction.Weekday(Date - x, 2)
If iDayNo < 7 Then
cb.AddItem Format(Date - x, "dd/mm/yyyy")
End If
Next x
cb.ListIndex = 0
End Sub

--
HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
DTHIS
web: www.excelusergroup.org
web: www.nickhodge.co.uk





"Div via OfficeKB.com" <u43652@uwe wrote in message
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Many thanks Nick. Being new to any form of programming I had pondered over
the solution for many weeks. About 2 hours after posting my original
message
I got to the conclusion with regards the use of formatting. However your
solution is far more elegant and efficient so again thanks.

If it's not too much of a cheek what I really had desired was the
following
(again within Excel 2007):

On a userform I would like to populate a combobox with dates for the
previous
28 days starting from the current date (i.e. todays date) but absent from
that list is any day which is a Sunday - all via VBA.

Any ideas?

Regards - Div

Nick Hodge wrote:
Div

It appears as a serial date where? If it is on a worksheet just format it,
if it arrives into a variable in your code you may need to specifically
parse it, e.g

Private Sub ComboBox1_Change()
Dim myUKDate As String
myUKDate = Format(Me.ComboBox1.Value, "dd/mm/yyyy")
MsgBox myUKDate
End Sub
Hi All,

[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]

Regards - Div

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Hi Nic,

Thanks for coding. I will over the weekend add the code and let you know how
it goes.

Regards - Div

Div wrote:
Many thanks Nick. Being new to any form of programming I had pondered over
the solution for many weeks. About 2 hours after posting my original message
I got to the conclusion with regards the use of formatting. However your
solution is far more elegant and efficient so again thanks.

If it's not too much of a cheek what I really had desired was the following
(again within Excel 2007):

On a userform I would like to populate a combobox with dates for the previous
28 days starting from the current date (i.e. todays date) but absent from
that list is any day which is a Sunday - all via VBA.

Any ideas?

Regards - Div

Div

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Regards - Div

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