Hi Janie,
Are you sure what you saw was shareware. Shareware
is asking for payment. This one is certainly free.

See John Walkenbach's page
Extended Date Functions
http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/xdate.htm
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Janie" wrote in message ...
I've downloaded a ShareWare Extended Dates Function Set thanks to MVP.org
which works with any dates -- including those BEFORE 1900 which Excel cannot
handle. Works nicely. And I've seen the suggested VBA routine to calculate
values using dates before 1900.

I was wondering if anyone else had any other methods they've come across to
handle this Excel shortcoming.

Thanks for any tips and tricks.

Janie