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I want to create an excel column that will show yr/mo/day all in numbers so I
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Default Excel cell showing Yr/Mo/Day in numbers only (09/11/06) can it b.

--You can custom format to yyyy/mm/dd (Right clickFormatCellsNumberselect
Date or select Custom and enter yyyy/mm/dd)

--If you enter the dates in excel date format.you can do the sorting in asc
or desc as excel stores the dates as numbers

Just check out the below link by Chip
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm


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I want to create an excel column that will show yr/mo/day all in numbers so I
can easily sort. Can this be done?

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