Format column A to Date.
If you are getting a 5 digit number you have A formatted as General.
For more on how Excel stores dates and times see Chip Pearson's site.
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm#SerialDates
Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:45:00 -0800, Wendy@EIS
wrote:
I have formatted the column etc and done all that Excel help explains. but
the date keeps converting to a year number, not mm/dd/yyyy which is what I
want. This happens only in column A.