Hello, First go to format cells control key and the number 1 then tab to category, arrow up or down until you get to date, hit tab once for type of date format arrow down until you get to the type of date format you desire then hit enter. Hope this will be of help. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: Starner, Alicia To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 10:16 AM Subject: EXCEL 2007 QUESTION Hello Everyone, I am using JAWS 9 and MS Office 2007. I am trying to create an Excel worksheet and have some questions. I have the worksheet itself set up, but when I go to enter data into the column I have marked as date it changes the format of the date. For example, when I enter October 7, 2008, Excell will automatically format it as 7, October, 2008. Does anyone know how to change this behavior and have Excel display the correct format for the date? Thanks, Alicia