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Asked: 2026-05-27T12:57:34+00:00

I’m writing a VBA macro in Excel that analyzes data from the spreadsheet and

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I’m writing a VBA macro in Excel that analyzes data from the spreadsheet and sends an email. In this macro, I have to attach the date formatted as “MM/dd” but the output is in the format of “MM-dd”. So the question is, why is my slash getting replaced with a dash?

For simplicity, I have reduced the code to this example, and verified the problem exists with this example as well… 

Private Sub Test()
    Dim Yesterday As Date: Yesterday = DateAdd("d", -1, Now)
    MsgBox Format(Yesterday, "MM/dd")
End Sub

When run, the message box shows “12-15” instead of “12/15” as expected.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I haven’t used VBA myself, but I suspect it’s treating / as “the current culture’s date separator” – and you’re presumably executing in a culture which uses - as the date separator. You could try quoting escaping the slash if you definitely always want a slash:

    MsgBox Format(Yesterday, "MM\/dd")

    That’s a bit of a guess at both the cause and the fix, but it’s at least worth a try.

    EDIT: Thanks to GSerg for the correction of how to perform the right escaping in this context.

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