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Old 10-31-2016, 02:02 PM
gogreen gogreen is offline Can't format date to MM/DD/YY Windows 10 Can't format date to MM/DD/YY Office 2010 32bit
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I find it preposterous that I can't set a date format of MM/DD/YY as an type option. I must be doing something wrong. To get what I want, I'm formatting the date cells as text. Seems a bit ridiculous to me. So what am I missing? Thanks.
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Old 10-31-2016, 03:08 PM
gebobs gebobs is offline Can't format date to MM/DD/YY Windows 7 64bit Can't format date to MM/DD/YY Office 2010 64bit
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Have you tried using the canned format Short Date?
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Old 10-31-2016, 03:24 PM
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Have you tried using the canned format Short Date?
Aha! I knew there was something I missed! Easy when you know how. Thanks, gebobs.
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