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Hi,
This is perplexing me - I've got a sheet that when I set a cell to a display format of..say Date, and enter 30/12/2003 (UK format), it displays ok in the formula bar, as the date, but in the cell it becomes 37985. I thought it could be set to Number format, as opposed to Date, but it definitely is set to Date. Opening a new workbook works fine, but obviously I can't do that, as I've done all the work in this one... Anyone got any ideas as to why this is occuring? Thanks, Ben -- BWGames to email change de.news to de-news |
Display problems...
BWGames wrote:
Hi, This is perplexing me - I've got a sheet that when I set a cell to a display format of..say Date, and enter 30/12/2003 (UK format), it displays ok in the formula bar, as the date, but in the cell it becomes 37985. I thought it could be set to Number format, as opposed to Date, but it definitely is set to Date. If you format 30-Dec-2003 as number, the result is 37985 How are you checking that the cell is formatted as Date? Have you tried formatting it as Date "again" ? -- Steve Garman |
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:53:58 +0000, in microsoft.public.excel.programming,
Steve Garman wrote: BWGames wrote: Hi, This is perplexing me - I've got a sheet that when I set a cell to a display format of..say Date, and enter 30/12/2003 (UK format), it displays ok in the formula bar, as the date, but in the cell it becomes 37985. I thought it could be set to Number format, as opposed to Date, but it definitely is set to Date. If you format 30-Dec-2003 as number, the result is 37985 How are you checking that the cell is formatted as Date? Have you tried formatting it as Date "again" ? Yep, tried all that. What I don't understand is that it only affects that *sheet*. Any other sheet in that workbook is fine... Tried formatting it as any type of date, still get the same. Any cell in that sheet as far as I can see exhibits that. I select the entire sheet, format cell, date, still no go... http://www.bwgames.net/excel.JPG is an example. Its definitely formatted as Date, the 'format cell' shows it as date... -- BWGames to email change de.news to de-news |
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Suspect you have the sheet in View formulas mode. do Ctrl+tilde to toggle
it back to normal mode. or with the sheet active, do Tools=Options=view page and uncheck Formulas. -- Regards, Tom Ogilvy "BWGames" wrote in message ... On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:53:58 +0000, in microsoft.public.excel.programming, Steve Garman wrote: BWGames wrote: Hi, This is perplexing me - I've got a sheet that when I set a cell to a display format of..say Date, and enter 30/12/2003 (UK format), it displays ok in the formula bar, as the date, but in the cell it becomes 37985. I thought it could be set to Number format, as opposed to Date, but it definitely is set to Date. If you format 30-Dec-2003 as number, the result is 37985 How are you checking that the cell is formatted as Date? Have you tried formatting it as Date "again" ? Yep, tried all that. What I don't understand is that it only affects that *sheet*. Any other sheet in that workbook is fine... Tried formatting it as any type of date, still get the same. Any cell in that sheet as far as I can see exhibits that. I select the entire sheet, format cell, date, still no go... http://www.bwgames.net/excel.JPG is an example. Its definitely formatted as Date, the 'format cell' shows it as date... -- BWGames to email change de.news to de-news |
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