Reformat the cells. Select a cell above October that shows dates correctly
and use the Format Painter (looks like a paintbrush) to format the October
cells

By the way: it is in "Formula Bar" that you are seeing 10/1/2008
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Bernard V Liengme
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"JR" wrote in message
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I have an on-going spread sheet for PO's each mo a new sheet is created.
In
October the columns that should be dates shows in the toolbar as a date -
but
on the sheet it shows as a number (10/01/2008 shows as 39722). The cells
are
formatted as dates.

Thank You