I am placing a variable date value into a VBA text box (to prepopulate it), but excel is converting the date format from Australian (dd/mm/yyyy) to US (mm/dd/yyyy). Note this question is primarily about unwanted changes to the date format displayed in the text box, not the unwanted format coming out of the text box (though that is also obviously a problem!).
I have checked that the value immediately prior to it being placed in the text box is in the desired format; but it is then converted and displayed in US format. When I retrieve the value from the text box and place it in a spreadsheet it is in the unwanted US format.
Please note that Cdate does not appear to fix this. I used Cdate on the string coming out of the text box but it is still US format when I place the result into a spreadsheet. I have also tried using Cdate on the string going into the text box but it is still US format.
Any suggestions on what's going on would be much appreciated!
To populate the textbox you could use Format Function, to force the date format displayed :
Textbox1.Text=Format(yourdate,"dd/mm/yyyy")
The default date format in your spreadsheet is linked to the regional settings of your computer but if you can specify what format is used by selecting it with Format Cells
However, i'm note sure how Excel can detect what date format is retrieved from the textbox. You might want to use a date picker instead of a textbox (Formatting MM/DD/YYYY dates in textbox in VBA)
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I have a mac - sigh. I am using excel on the mac.
All date fields have the type of "date", with a format of month/day/year (eg 3/14/2019)
If I enter the value as 10/13/2019, then all is well.
If I enter the value as 10/12/2019, then excel will store it as 10/12/2019, but display it as 12/10/2019
What I mean is that looking at the cells, you'll see 12/10/2019. However, if you click on the cell, then in the little text field at the top, the cell contents are displayed as "10/12/2019".
This is going to confuse the hell out of my american co-workers - it is already confusing me.
I can solve this by putting a ' in front of the 10/12/2019 date... but I'm not sure why Excel is doing its best to make such a mess of this. Is there some way to tell it to stop "auto correcting" things?
I'm pretty baffled by this, I've never had any issues with a simple find&replace before. I'm just trying to replace FindValue with ReplaceValue, but it's not found. Is it because it's trying to search in "Formulas"? I don't see any other option in the drop down though.
Could be the format options you have used.
It should be "No Format Set" instead of "Preview*". You can achieve this by click on the button "Format..." -> "Clear Find Format"
With the format option activated, you also defined that the cell you search for has the text value "FindValue" and some cell attributes (date format or currency format etc.)
I want to create cells which instruct the user on what need to be filled in that cell in the background and when you click to enter a something, this text vanishes. You normally see this you order something online. For example: Question: Date of Birth, answer field: DD/MM/YYYY in grey text. When you click on DD/MM/YYYY it dissappears and you can answer.
I would like to do this without using VBA, since I have no experience using VBA. Is this possible?
I thought about using conditional formatting, but I think the text won't disappear when clicked only when someone types something in.
Anyone has any idea how I can achieve this?
Thanks a lot
So you can enter placeholder text like cell value and colour it grey.
Then you can use Conditional Formatting to turn it black if new text is different than placeholder.
This would be the result:
However if you wan to make sure that your input is correct I suggest using Data Validation.
How to format excel cell with comma separated. For example, we say like 1427322 and it show like 1,427,322
Any suggestion how we can achieve this?
Try this... This worked for me..
Go to Control Panel -> Region (Region & Language) -> In Formats Set format to English(India).
Then apply this custom number format to the specific cell in excel
Apply a custom number format Select the cell or range of cells that you want to format. On the Home tab, under Number, on the Number Format pop-up menu , click Custom. In the Format Cells dialog box, under Category, click Custom. At the bottom of the Type list, select the built-in format that you just created. Click OK.
_(* #,##0_);_(* (#,##0);_(* "-"_);_(#_)
The amount is not pulling in listview with proper format. Eg: If I enter 1,00,000 then listview is showing as 100000. Can you please assist me
I just want to show the commas in my amount.
Listview controls only accept text. If you add something that's not text, it converts it however it sees fit. If you want to format a number or date to display a certain way, you have to format it yourself.
lvItem.ListSubItems.Add Format$(10^6,"#,###,##0")