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Excel does not displaying formatting correctly
I am currently running Excel 2000 on Windows NT 4.0.
I have a spreadsheet which contains dates in the custom format "dd/mm/yyyy". Up until this morning the dates displayed fine, however, the dates are now showing in general format, i.e. "21/01/2006" is showing as "38738". If I select the cell the date is shown correctly in the formula bar, and also if I press F2 it is shown correctly for editing. But as soon as I move off the cell it goes back to showing in general format. I have tried changing the cell formatting but nothing seems to work, can anyone please help. Thanks David |
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Excel does not displaying formatting correctly
Tools|Options|View|Uncheck Formulas
You may have hit the short cut key for this toggle: ctrl-` (ctrl-backquote, the key to the left of the 1/! on my USA keyboard) Cookie wrote: I am currently running Excel 2000 on Windows NT 4.0. I have a spreadsheet which contains dates in the custom format "dd/mm/yyyy". Up until this morning the dates displayed fine, however, the dates are now showing in general format, i.e. "21/01/2006" is showing as "38738". If I select the cell the date is shown correctly in the formula bar, and also if I press F2 it is shown correctly for editing. But as soon as I move off the cell it goes back to showing in general format. I have tried changing the cell formatting but nothing seems to work, can anyone please help. Thanks David -- Dave Peterson |
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Excel does not displaying formatting correctly
Dave,
Thanks very much, that solved my problem and everthing is now displaying correctly. Much appreciated. David "Dave Peterson" wrote: Tools|Options|View|Uncheck Formulas You may have hit the short cut key for this toggle: ctrl-` (ctrl-backquote, the key to the left of the 1/! on my USA keyboard) Cookie wrote: I am currently running Excel 2000 on Windows NT 4.0. I have a spreadsheet which contains dates in the custom format "dd/mm/yyyy". Up until this morning the dates displayed fine, however, the dates are now showing in general format, i.e. "21/01/2006" is showing as "38738". If I select the cell the date is shown correctly in the formula bar, and also if I press F2 it is shown correctly for editing. But as soon as I move off the cell it goes back to showing in general format. I have tried changing the cell formatting but nothing seems to work, can anyone please help. Thanks David -- Dave Peterson |
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