I seem to have messed up my date formatting in Excel. Have to confess that I
fiddled with the date checkboxes under the Calculations tab in Options. Now
when I type a date such as 090406 in any cell, any workbook and try to format
it as a date, it seems to be adding 90406 to 1/1/1900, and formatting the
date accordingly. In other words, the above is being interpreted as
7/9/2147. However, if I type it in as 9/4/06, it formats it correctly.

I am afraid to open any files where I have used dates in calculations
because they may become corrupted.

Can anyone out there help?

P.S. Let this be a warning against messing around when you don't know what
your doing!
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Cheryl