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Default Change date to number

Thank you!!! Forgot about setting the format in the text function like that!
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"vezerid" wrote:

maryj,
the following formula will produce, in a separate cell, the same
display as in A2, only it is now text:
=TEXT(A2,"yyyymmdd")

If you want to use a column for further data entry, in which your entry
will not be interpreted as a date, format the cells as Text
(Format|Cells...|Number tab)

HTH
Kostis Vezerides


 
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