Thank you very much, Dave. It's indeed the Windows and Macs date system that's
playing the trick!

Appreciate your help.



"Dave Peterson" wrote:

One workbook was using a base year of 1900 and the other was using 1904.
(tools|options|calculation tab|1904 date system)

One way to add those four years back is to find an empty cell, put 1462 into
that cell.

Copy that cell.

Select your range that contains the dates.
Edit|PasteSpecial|Click Add (or Subtract) depending on which workbook you want
to fix.


You may have to reformat the cell as a date (mine turned to a 5 digit number).
But it should work.

You may want to do it against a copy...just in case.

Most windows users use 1900 as the base date. Mac users (mostly??) use 1904 as
the base date.

Sweepea wrote:

Example:

Original text: 4/28/2004

After cut and paste, it changes to: 4/29/2008

"Gary''s Student" wrote:

Post a single example. It may help us figure it out.
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Gary''s Student


"Sweepea" wrote:

The date changed to a totally different day and year.

Any clue?

"Sweepea" wrote:

Question:

I cut and paste Value a date onto another area, and format that date
to Date format, but it's showing a different date.

Can someone help? Thanks a lot.




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Dave Peterson