Any chance you're viewing formulas in the worksheet you're pasting?

Tools|options|View|uncheck Formulas

What does the number look like?

If you pasted 3/30/2005 (march 30, 2005) into a cell, do you get 38441?

If no, what number do you get?

If you format the cell as a nice looking date, does it change the display?

Alex wrote:

I am downloading a result to excel and there are date formats in that result.
When I copied thedate formatted cells and paste it to a new
workbook/spreadshhet..the dates are changing into numbers. I tried doing this
by using another computer and the results are fine, I can copy and paste the
cells as is to another workbook/spreadsheet. Is this set-up related? If so,
can you please help me configure my excel so that I don't have to re-format
the cells to date format.

Thanks,
Alex

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Dave Peterson