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How does excel treat dates that are before 1900? Is there a way to
automatically format March 16, 1836 so excel recognises it as a value that
can be used in calculating number of days between dates as is done for post
1900 dates?
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John Walkenback has a free add-in that you can download from he

http://spreadsheetpage.com/index.php...re_1900_dates/

Hope this helps.

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How does excel treat dates that are before 1900? Is there a way to
automatically format March 16, 1836 so excel recognises it as a value that
can be used in calculating number of days between dates as is done for post
1900 dates?


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Try to find some help in the hereunder links:
http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/usertips/tip028.htm
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/245104
*** Google will provide some more...
Micky


"Cordlina" wrote:

How does excel treat dates that are before 1900? Is there a way to
automatically format March 16, 1836 so excel recognises it as a value that
can be used in calculating number of days between dates as is done for post
1900 dates?

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