Please update the Excel program to handle dates before 1/1/1900. Currently I
have to enter older dates as strings and then jump through hoops to use them
as actual dates. dBase, FoxPro and heck even Clipper handle pre-1900 dates
without any problem, so why can't a great product like Excel do the same?

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