Agreed with Tony re post #11, and a little surprised you haven't responded to that post yet.

I certainly don't propose TEXT solutions with "dd", "mm" and "yy" whenever I post on a French forum, knowing of course that "day", "month" and "year" are not universal, and hence neither are "dd", "mm" and "yy" ("jj", "mm" and "aa" for French-language Excel users if anyone's interested).

Regards