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Excel Formatting and sorting dates

Last answer on Apr 28, 2009 8:46:17 am BST blackdog11, on Apr 27, 2009 6:54:17 am BST 
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Hello,
Problem....

I'm entering dates into Excel. I need these dates date in the format "ddmmyyyy" with leading zeroes where the day is < 10 e.g. Fifth of August 2009 will display as "05082009"

When I type the string "05082009", it changes it to "5082009"

If I format the cell as a custom format of "00000000" to attempt this, I lose the date format and the columns sort as strings, not dates.

...I hope you'll help me

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 mubashir aziz, on Apr 28, 2009 8:46:17 am BST
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Its working fine. u must enter date format as ddmmyyyy AND when you will enter 5-8-09 it will automatically convert it as 05082009.

check date format of relevant cell .....

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