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September 23rd, 2008, 05:15 PM
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Find / replace in excel 2003
I have a column formatted m/yy for the date 2/08. Tried to replace 2/08 with
8/08 and excel couldn't find 2/08 - I realized that the cell actually contained the date 2/8/2008 and I needed to use that to find/replace. Is there some setting I need to change so the cell actually contains 2/08? Thanks for your time dp 
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September 23rd, 2008, 05:25 PM
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Find / replace in excel 2003
You would need to precede the entry with an apostrophe or preformat the
cells as text, Excel cannot accept 8/08 as a date, it will try to help you convert it to a regular date -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "dp" wrote in message ... I have a column formatted m/yy for the date 2/08. Tried to replace 2/08 with 8/08 and excel couldn't find 2/08 - I realized that the cell actually contained the date 2/8/2008 and I needed to use that to find/replace. Is there some setting I need to change so the cell actually contains 2/08? Thanks for your time dp
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September 23rd, 2008, 05:34 PM
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Find / replace in excel 2003
Thank you.
"Peo Sjoblom" wrote: You would need to precede the entry with an apostrophe or preformat the cells as text, Excel cannot accept 8/08 as a date, it will try to help you convert it to a regular date -- Regards, Peo Sjoblom "dp" wrote in message ... I have a column formatted m/yy for the date 2/08. Tried to replace 2/08 with 8/08 and excel couldn't find 2/08 - I realized that the cell actually contained the date 2/8/2008 and I needed to use that to find/replace. Is there some setting I need to change so the cell actually contains 2/08? Thanks for your time dp
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