BWGames wrote:
Hi,

This is perplexing me - I've got a sheet that when I set a cell to a
display format of..say Date, and enter 30/12/2003 (UK format), it displays
ok in the formula bar, as the date, but in the cell it becomes 37985. I
thought it could be set to Number format, as opposed to Date, but it
definitely is set to Date.

If you format 30-Dec-2003 as number, the result is 37985

How are you checking that the cell is formatted as Date?

Have you tried formatting it as Date "again" ?

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Steve Garman