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<title>Tip: Quick-Entry Date Formats</title>
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<p class="Help-Heading-1" style="background-color: #008000;">Tip: Quick-Date Entry Formats</p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Dates are displayed in the format you specified in your operating system. You can enter dates in that same format or use one of the following quick entry formats (without typing hyphens () or slash marks (/) to separate days, months, and years). When you press <font class="hcp1">&lt;Enter&gt;</font> or exit the field, the date will be converted to the format set up in your operating system, with the appropriate hyphens or slashes added.</p>
<p class="Help-Text">The available quick entry formats are:</p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">mmddyyyy</p>
<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">mmddyy</p>
<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">ddmmmyy</p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Example: September 8, 2003 can be entered:</p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Letters for month are not case-sensitive.</p>
<p class="Help-Text">No matter how you enter the date, it will be displayed according to your operating systems date format.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Use the keyboard shortcuts below to quickly enter dates. Some commands are relative to the currently displayed date. If there is not a date displayed, the entry is relative to the current date.</p>
<p class="Help-Text">When keyboard combinations have a + between them press the keys at the same time. When separated by a comma, press the first key, release, and then press the next key.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right;"><font class="hcp4">&lt;T&gt;, &lt;Enter&gt;</font></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Enter today's date.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right;"><font class="hcp4">&lt;+&gt;, &lt;Number&gt;, &lt;Enter&gt;</font></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Move date forward the specified number of days.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right; font-weight: bold;">&lt;&gt;, &lt;Number&gt;, &lt;Enter&gt;</p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Move date back the specified number of days.</p>
<p class="Help-Text"><font class="hcp1">Note:</font> <font style="font-style: italic;">This option is not available if your operating system date is set to use hyphens () as the date separator.</font></p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right;"><font class="hcp4">&lt;Alt+</font><font face="Wingdings 3" class="hcp6">r;</font><font class="hcp4">&gt;</font></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Change date one day forward.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right;"><font class="hcp4">&lt;Alt+</font><font face="Wingdings 3" class="hcp6"></font><font class="hcp4">&gt;</font></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Change date to one day earlier.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Move date forward one month.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right;"><font class="hcp4">&lt;Alt+PageDown&gt;</font></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Move date back one month.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right;"><font class="hcp4">&lt;Alt+Home&gt;</font></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Move date forward one year.</p>
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<p class="Help-Text" style="text-align: right;"><font class="hcp4">&lt;Alt+End&gt;</font></p>
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<p class="Help-Text">Move date back one year.</p>
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