Insert a date in a cell in one and only possible format

[michal2287]

Hi All,

I have some trackers in excel sheets and there are several users who fills them in, and every user fills the dates in a different format. Sometimes they will just write 10mar and the excel does not recognise it as a date and therefore does not format it.

Is there any way, that if the user clicks on the cell either a small calendar pops up or Excel will not let them add the date in a wrong format?

I know for the first option, there is something like date picker, but I did not manage to install it on my mac. I also found some kind of xtools calendar /or mini calendar, but I do not want to have the calendar shown until somebody click on the appropriate cell.

Thank you very much for your help!

Michal

[ashleyuk1984]

What is the format that you want? You could use Data Validation. That would force users to insert a date in the correct format.

Look here for help: http://www.contextures.com/xlDataVal06.html