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Old September 15th, 2005, 10:37 PM
DKR
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Can you format a cell so that you can just put in 091505 and it will enter it
as 09/15/05. Sure would save me some time.
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Old September 15th, 2005, 10:42 PM
Chip Pearson
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You can't do it with formatting. You need VBA code. See
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetimeentry.htm .

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Can you format a cell so that you can just put in 091505 and it
will enter it
as 09/15/05. Sure would save me some time.



 




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