You're looking at formulas.

In xl2003 menus:
tools|options|view tab|uncheck formulas

I don't recall where under the Office button|excel options this is kept, but...

ctrl-` (control-backquote, the key to the left of the 1/! on my USA keyboard) is
the shortcut key for toggling this setting.


Haider wrote:

I have an Excel form with a Cell that you need to input sale date that I
input my self. The cell changes from example (12/1/2009) to 32453, but once
you double click on the cell it show the hidden (12/1/2009) once you click
out of it, it revets to the 32453 number. I check the cell format and it
show as date.

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Dave Peterson