How to enter excel dates for last year?

I have no intention to challenge Billns's, or any others assumption all I had
in mine is the lack of possibility to run calculations with your solution.
I also prefer the ALL YEARS Workbook_Change solution suggested by [Toms
wasn't there when I first responsed].
I can assure you that I face a lot of questions where the OP writes 2009 and
after getting solutions) that are directed to meet only the year 2009 he
returns to ask "...and what if I want it to be applied to another year".
This is what I, usually, try [maybe not always successfully] to avoid] and
therefor try to present as general solution that I can think of except for
cases where the OP makes it very clear that he is looking for a specific
solution.
Hope I made myself clear.
Micky


"Joe User" wrote:

"מיכ�ל (מיקי) �בידן" micky-a*at*tapuz.co.il wrote:
This might solve the typing and "appearance" but produce woeful results,
if he needs to run any calculations on those "dates"

My comments make the same assumption that Billns makes, namely: "if the
dates are __all__ last year". Since neither 2009 nor 2010 is a leap year, I
believe, as Billns's does, that date calculations will have the same result
regardless of which year is actually used.

If your point is to challenge Billns's assumption, that's fine. But he did
say "if". It is up to JCarlos (and others) to read the comments carefully.

That said, I would prefer the Workbook_Change solution suggested by Don and
Tom. It is the more general solution for __all__ years.


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"מיכ�ל (מיקי) �בידן" micky-a*at*tapuz.co.il wrote in message
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This might solve the typing and "appearance" but produce woeful results,
if
he needs to run any calculations on those "dates" - and he didn't
emphasize
that he do not...
Micky


"Joe User" wrote:

"Billns" wrote:
If the dates are all last year, why do you even need to display the
year or care which one it really is? Format the column as mm/dd.

Or if JCarlos would like the date to __appear__ as 2009, enter dates in
the
form mm/dd, but use the Custom format mm/dd/"09" or something like that.


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"Billns" wrote in message
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On 4/3/2010 9:39 AM, JCarlosJr wrote:
Hi gang,

Its tax time and I'm trying to enter my expenses ito EXCEL for last
year
(don't even remind me I should do this as the year progresses).

Anyway, for speed of entry I would like to enter just mm/dd. Excel
will
complete the year for me as 2010.

I could change the system date, but this has bad reprocussions,
especaill
when multi-tasking.

I could create a column which subtracts 365 from my entry column and
then
paste values from my "dummy" column into my entry column.

BUT, does anyone have a better suggestion to force dates entered on a
specific book, sheet, or even colum to s different default year than
the
system date year?


If the dates are all last year, why do you even need to display the
year
or care which one it really is? Format the column as mm/dd.

Bill

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