set value as certain format excel vba code example

Example: excel vba set cell format to date

'In Excel, dates are actually just numbers that have a special
'formatting applied to display like dates.

'VBA code to change the Number Formatting of a cell range:

[A1].NumberFormat = "mm-dd-yyyy"

'There are hundreds of options for Number Formats. The above sets
'cell A1 to display numbers as a date in the American style.

Here are a few other Number Formats:

[A1].NumberFormat = "General"
[A1].NumberFormat = "$#,##0.00"
[A1].NumberFormat = "@"				'<-- Text

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