2 questions - one about inserting the date, other about adding lines.

[FAJITA]

hey,

im making a timeline plan for school, and when i enter the date such a
3/2/06 it autocorrects it and changes it to 03/02/2006 which i dont hav
enough room for. is there a way so it doesnt automatically change it?

and the other is ive already typed up my table, disregarding the fac
that the grey lines between each cell dont get printed. so how do i ad
these lines so when i print it it comes out as a table, and can
customise these lines?

thanks for your help

 

[Roger Govier]

Hi

For the date format, then
Format>Cells>Number>Custom and enter in the white pane d/m/yy if you
mean 3 Feb 06, or m/d/yy if you mean 2 Mar 06

To get the borders to cells either
File>Page Setup>Sheet> check Print Gridlines
or
Mark your range of data the
Format>Cells>Border>choose border style

 

[VBA Noob]

Try formatting the cells with the date. Go format > Custom >DD/MM/YY

The gridlines can be printed. Go to print preview. Setup and then th
Sheet tab. There's a option to print sheet.

The other way is to outline the area with a border.

VBA Noo

 

[FAJITA]

thanks guys. it really helped.

 

[FAJITA]

one more thing actually
could u please have a look at the attachment

is there anyway that i can have two symbols in the one box, one above
the other if possible.

thanks again


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[VBA Noob]

Yes you can

I opened up the Character Map and selected Wingdings2 and Selected a
Dot and a X.

I then added to excel change the cell style to Wingdings2. Then I
wrapped the text to stack them

VBA Noob

 

[FAJITA]

im sorry i didnt really understand that at all, but it doesnt matter, i
figred out a way around it. thanks anyway

 

[SteveW]

You an have the text configured to run vertically.
charcters don't have to be of the same font, nor size. some can be bold
italic etc

Plenty of possibilites