Format Cells

[Pestomania]

Hello.

I have cells that contain dates in the following formats:

"9/13-"
"9/13-9/14"
"-9/14"

What I am trying to determine is if I can force the "hyphen" into the cell. So if I type:

"9/13"

The format will auto-update to:

"9/13-"

I formulas that are based on that "-" being there.

How can I do this if someone forgets to place the hyphen?

 

[Rick Rothstein]

Given the formats you showed us, how do you know the missing dash belongs at the end instead of at the beginning? Since you would need event code to do what you asked, wouldn't it be better to have that code stop the user and pop up a MessageBox advising them that their entry is missing the required dash? Would that approach be acceptable?

 

[Pestomania]

Hi Rick.

Thank you for replying so quick.

I was just playing around with the formats for a few minutes and when I changed it just text, everything worked fine. With or without a dash.

My other formulas would read (without dash) the date as a value, rather than as "9/13". I changed it to text and it accepted the "9/13" as that and returned the same.

Thank you!