Date & Time - Dates's Formatting

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1. A date is a numeric data. So it is possible to include it in a formula.
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2. Excel provide to display a date with several format.
Sometimes you will just display the Month and the Year and othertimes the Day and the Month. But the value of the cell is always a date
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3. In the menu Format / Cells ... you can select some standard date format
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4. Or you can create your personnal format by choosing the Year format, the Month format and the Day format
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5. For instance, let's work with the date of Saturday Februar 09 2002
The following array present you the different possibility to display the Day, the Month and the Year
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6. The days
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7. The months
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8. The years
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9. You could choose one of the following separator
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Formule de la cellule
dash (-), slash (/), space ( )
 
 
10. To display the date February / 09 / 2002, you must write the following format
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Formule de la cellule
mmmm / dd / yyyy
 
 
 
11. Do the next exercise:
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