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When I enter a date in Excel it converts to a 5-digit number. WHY?
I have formatted the column etc and done all that Excel help explains. but
the date keeps converting to a year number, not mm/dd/yyyy which is what I want. This happens only in column A. |
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When I enter a date in Excel it converts to a 5-digit number. WHY?
Format column A to Date.
If you are getting a 5 digit number you have A formatted as General. For more on how Excel stores dates and times see Chip Pearson's site. http://www.cpearson.com/excel/datetime.htm#SerialDates Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 12:45:00 -0800, Wendy@EIS wrote: I have formatted the column etc and done all that Excel help explains. but the date keeps converting to a year number, not mm/dd/yyyy which is what I want. This happens only in column A. |
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