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TechLights
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When run a report and save the report in Excel format, the date field is displayed in mm/dd/yyyy format, i.e., in "GENERAL type has no specific number type". Users would like to display the date in mm/dd/yy format. We have tried selecting the appropriate cells, setting the cell format to DATE, type: mm/dd/yy but the displayed format does not change. After various tries to get a solution, I did some research on the Internet and came up with the following workaround that seems to work but does require additional steps by the user. Users would like more permanent solution that do not need additional steps in order to change the displayed format for dates.

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FrankDutch
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what is the original format in the database of these field?
but is this not a basic setting in excel?




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Dan Satchell
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Try reformatting the date field to the desired format before it is exported to Excel:

TABLE FILE GGSALES
SUM
CATEGORY
PRODUCT
DATE/MDY
UNITS
DOLLARS
BY CATEGORY NOPRINT
BY PRODUCT NOPRINT
BY DATE NOPRINT
ON TABLE PCHOLD FORMAT EXL2K
END


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TechLights
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Thanks for the help!

The original format of date in the database is: DATE (ex: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss), it has been formatted in the sql as: mm/dd/yyyy by using to_char (). By the way, even I use the date field from database directly, Category for all the columns are:

Category: General
No type

I got what I want finally by using:
DEFINE FILE GGSALES
DATE_MDYY/MDYY=HDATE (DATE, 'YYMD');
END
After the date field is exported to Excel, the column is:

Category: Custom.
Type: mm/dd/yyyy. (User can edit it directly)


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