"Dave Peterson" wrote:
And since 1 divided by 5 divided by 2010 is a very
small number--much less than 1 and the cell is
formatted as a date, you'll see January 0, 1900 (or
its equivalent using your format).

My mistake. I translated "0-Jan-00" to 0/0/1900 in my mind. Klunk!


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"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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If you turn on "transition formula entry", and enter the date as:

1/5/2010

Excel will pretend that it's Lotus 123, see the slashes as division
symbols and
automatically convert the entry to a formula (inserting an equal sign as
the
first character).

You should see: =1/5/2010
in the formula bar when that cell is selected.

And since 1 divided by 5 divided by 2010 is a very small number--much less
than
1 and the cell is formatted as a date, you'll see January 0, 1900 (or its
equivalent using your format).





Joe User wrote:

"Dave Peterson" wrote:
You have a Lotus 123 setting toggled on.
Tools|Options|transition tab (in xl2003 menus)

I've never played with those options. Just curious....

Even when I set Transition Formula Evaluation and Transition Formula
Entry,
I cannot get 0-Jan-00 [sic] or any form of 0/0/1900.

All I ever see is 1/0/1900. And I can get that without setting any
Transition options, simply by entering zero into a cell formatted as
Date.

So how does one get effectively 0/0/1900 as a result of setting one or
more
Transition options?

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"Dave Peterson" wrote in message
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You have a Lotus 123 setting toggled on.

Tools|Options|transition tab (in xl2003 menus)
Uncheck all those options.

Re-enter your date.

ps. Please include your question in the body of the message--not just
the
subject.

Clark wrote:

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