Default Date Format

Using Office 2003 Pro
Is there a way to set default date format to medium; i.e, 12-Nov-05?
I have Win Regional set to dd-mmm-yy, but Excel defaults to short date such
as 12-11-05.

Thanks

There is no separate setting for Excel -- it uses your Regional Short Date
system setting. But since you are having a problem with mixed dates, you might
want to consider changing your format to yyyy-mm-dd which is the ISO standard.

A couple of things that you should be aware of is that VBA is US centric (mm/dd/yy)
so dates will be treated in the US format. If you want to enter a specific date in
VBA it is safest to use the DATE function.

and Excel (not VBA) is "kind" enough to make a bad date become a good date,
so if there aren't 31 months in a year Excel will assume that was days (or years) and
change the date to a valid one -- with dates like 11/12/05 and 12/11/05 Excel
will use your Regional settings in the order you specified.

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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
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"shep" wrote in message ...
Using Office 2003 Pro
Is there a way to set default date format to medium; i.e, 12-Nov-05?
I have Win Regional set to dd-mmm-yy, but Excel defaults to short date such
as 12-11-05.

Thanks