I get unexpected results when date formatting a worksheet cell in a MS Excel
spreadsheet - in other words it looks like a calculation is trying to take
place such that entering 1220 in the cell returns a date of 5/4/1903 and
entering 12202006 0r 122006 returns a negative date displayed as ########. I
have not experienced something like that before €“ and I use MS Excel way too
much!

The cells are formatted as dates.

Is there a way I can enter the dates without the slashes?