Deafult Date Format

bradders66

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I've seen loads of posts about this but none that answered this problem.

We import data from an XML file, and the input date is (for example) 12MAR2013. Excel has no problem with this and correctly imports it fine, however the date display is "12-Mar-13". Now I know we can change how its shown by formatting it to a custom date pattern etc. but does anyone know if there is something somehwhere (thats is editable) that says dd-mmm-yy is the default format to use for all new spreadsheets. And before you say Regaional settings in Control Panel - nope, its not there either. We have English United Kingdoem set on everything and no hint or sign of dd-mmm-yy as a default
 

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Not the "Short date" format in Regional Settings?

That "sort" of works but you can only change it to a limited amount of variations, with a limited amount of delimiters, so ddMMMyyyy isn't an option on there. In XP for example, the closest I could get it to was (form example) 26 Apr 2013, though I'd like to lose the gaps and have the month in caps, though this still displayed in Excel 2007 as "26 Apr 13", so still losing the full year bit!!. It says that by entering space as a delimiter it won't use one...but it lied!!
 
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