If it has already been converted into date format and you want to reverse it, use
=Text(date,"yy-mm-dd") or =Text(date,"dd-mm-yy") the way you want and then remove formulae by pasting only the values Hemant Hegde 2009/11/27 Norman May <nor...@gmail.com> > Jitesh > > Try formatting the cells as TEXT > > Norman > > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Jitheesh Vazhapully <7jit...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Good Evening Excel Gurus, >> >> I have a data in this format 01-01-01, however as soon as I enter them in >> the excel sheet,excel picks it up as date and stores it in date format, Is >> there any way I can prevent this from happening. >> Also how to convert this data back from date format 01/01/2001 to original >> 01-01-01 format >> >> Thanks >> >> Regards >> >> Jitesh >> >> -- >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Some important links for excel users: >> 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at >> http://www.excelitems.com >> 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com >> 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com >> 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com >> >> >> To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com >> If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: >> Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or >> Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com >> <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >> HELP US GROW !! >> >> We reach over 6,500 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes >> about the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 >> subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can >> subscribe to group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe > > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Some important links for excel users: > 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at > http://www.excelitems.com > 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com > 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com > 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com > > > To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com > If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: > Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or > Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > HELP US GROW !! > > We reach over 6,500 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about > the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 > subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can > subscribe to group at > http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some important links for excel users: 1. Excel and VBA Tutorials(Video and Text), Free add-ins downloads at http://www.excelitems.com 2. Excel tutorials at http://www.excel-macros.blogspot.com 3. Learn VBA Macros at http://www.vbamacros.blogspot.com 4. Excel Tips and Tricks at http://exceldailytip.blogspot.com To post to this group, send email to excel-macros@googlegroups.com If you find any spam message in the group, please send an email to: Ayush Jain @ jainayus...@gmail.com or Ashish Jain @ 26may.1...@gmail.com <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> HELP US GROW !! We reach over 6,500 subscribers worldwide and receive many nice notes about the learning and support from the group. Our goal is to have 10,000 subscribers by the end of 2009. Let friends and co-workers know they can subscribe to group at http://groups.google.com/group/excel-macros/subscribe
