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by - delegate Lisa [1 post] (2008 Mar 19 Wed, 13:55) replyReply

If creating a function using date, how do you get the answer to be formatted in date format?

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RE: Date formatting in Functions

by - trainer Pete platinum contributer[799 posts] (2008 Mar 31 Mon, 11:07) Edited on 2008 Mar 31 Mon, 11:09 replyReply

Hi Lisa, Welcome to the forum, Thank you for your post, in answer to your question, if the result is going to be in a date style, ie separated by hyphens (-) or the forward slash (/) Excel will recognise that it is to be a date, however in all other cases the number of days from the 1/1/1900 will be returned, this is more a question of the formatting properties of the receiving cell rather than the actual function itself. I suppose you could add further commands to the function if you desired or you could format the receiving cell/s and then the input will automatically be fomatted as whatever date style you require whenever the cell is populated. I hope that helps, best regards Pete


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