Check the Date format in your Windows settings (Control Panel, Date-Time etc)

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Kind regards,

Niek Otten
Microsoft MVP - Excel

"yakalo" wrote in message ...
| I've run into a very odd date format problem in excel 2003: When I type in a
| date as MM/DD/YY and the date is less than 12 (e.g. 04/11/07), excel
| automatically changes the format to MM/DD/YYYY, after which I can play with
| the date format to get it to look how I want (e.g. 11-Apr-07).
|
| However, if the date is greater than 12 (e.g. 04/13/07) excel leaves the
| cell as text, and its format cannot be changed to a date, even by going to
| "format cell" and selecting "date." Has anyone else noticed this? Try it
| with this example and you'll see what I mean!
|
| It may seem like a minor glitch, but big problems arise when downloading
| banking data (i.e. the first 12 days of the month have different date formats
| than the rest, and can therefore not be sorted by date), and when trying to
| export (when exporting to .qif and uploading to Quicken the two date formats
| import differently).
|
| Help!