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May 25, 2001 at 12:47 AM
bashful

Date formats in EXCEL 97

by bashful . Updated 25 years, 2 months ago

Can anyone help with a problem I have getting dates to display correctly.

I am using Excel 97 +SP 2a with UK settings.

When I format a cell to accept dates in the UK format of ‘dd/mm/yy’, I can enter them in the correct format but Excel displays them in the US format.

However, the formulae bar displays them correctly and they show correctly when I use different display formats.

e.g. if I was to enter the date as 24/05/01, Excel would display it as 05/24/01 in the cell but as 24/05/01 in the formulae bar.

Using NT4, regional settings set to English (United Kingdom) and the date format is set to dd/MM/yy

Anyone have any ideas?
Regards
David Coull

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