“Save as” window popup appears, now you can save this file as Excel Macro enabled workbook under save as type. By clicking on save as at the left corner of the worksheet. Save your workbook as “Excel macro-enabled workbook”.
Step 2: In the above-mentioned code, format function is applied to different user-defined date format’s for Today’s date, if I run the above code, it will result in the below-mentioned output in a respective cell range. Range("D16") = Format(date_example, "ww") Range("D14") = Format(date_example, "yyyy") Range("D13") = Format(date_example, "yy") Range("D12") = Format(date_example, "mmmm") Range("D11") = Format(date_example, "mmm") Range("D10") = Format(date_example, "mm") Range("D8") = Format(date_example, "dddd") Range("D7") = Format(date_example, "ddd") Step 1: In this example, you can create a date value format of your choice i.e. similarly, you can test different date format (short or medium), based on your choice (other examples explained in a macro window). Step 4: If you run the above code, it results in the below-mentioned output in an excel sheet.
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Step 3: I have used range function after format function to obtain output in a specific cell, the final code format to be used for a short date is:Ī = Format("04 - 12 - 2019", "short date") therefore, here, I defined the variable as “string” data type. Step 2: As VB format function is categorized under text/string type Variables, DIM (Dimension) is used in a VBA code to declare a variable name and its type. Step 1: Open a Module from the Insert menu option as shown below. Now the blank module is created, it is also called a code window, where you can start writing VBA DATE FORMAT function statement codes. Suppose, I have the date value “April 12 th 2019” let’s apply VB different date format to it Step 3: To create a blank module, Under the Microsoft excel objects, right-click on sheet 1 (VB_DATE_FORMAT) Insert and under the menu section select Module, so that a new blank module gets created. Step 2: Open a Module from the Insert menu option as shown below. Step 1: Go to the Developer’s tab and click on Visual Basic.
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I can say it is small issue, but it can be a pain in the … when deadline of the project is near and You have to struggle with such things.You can download this VBA Date Format Excel Template here – VBA Date Format Excel Template VBA Date Format – Example #1
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Now You should know how to prevent Excel from formatting text as date. When You want it to guess, it does not and when You don’t want it to guess, Excel is converting everything automatically on its own. So before You put any value into the cell change the number format to string – Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").NumberFormat = "10/3" Quick happy endĮxcel is behaving how it wants and in its own way. Maybe it was caused by that it was workbook of the PowerPoint chart.Īnyway, I had to find other way to solve this problem.Īfter research I found the solution, which is based on firstly the format of the value. Worksheets("Sheet1").Range("A1").Value = "'10/3"įor some reason it did not change the situation. I didn’t think that it is any issue and thought that apostrophe at the beginning of the value will help. I tried also with hiven 10-3 and dot 10.3, but with the same results. So, lets start with the example key value, which Excel is converting automatically – 10/3. I had this issue building the same tool as in one of the previous articles and it took me a while to resolve this little thing.
However it was so annoying to me, that I decide to devote whole article for this.