Your explanation could have been a lot clearer. Here's my guess.

You are calculating =year(a1) where a1 contains the date May 15/2007.
You are formatting that cell as a date (with the format "yyyy"), and getting
the result 1905.

Your problem is that a year is not a date. Your year is 2007, but when you
format this as "yyyy", Excel thinks it's a serial number representing the
date Jun 29/1905. So it dutifully responds with 1905.

Your choices a
1. Don't use =Year(...). Just format the date cell with "yyyy".
2. Use =Year(...), but format as a number

Regards,
Fred

"DanWebster24" wrote in message
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In the Function Arguments dialog the official Formula Result is different
(and wrong) from the result shown after "=" just under the Serial number
field.
I am using the Year formula. Whatever formatting I use for the date
neither
this formula nor Text to Columns can return the correct year.
EG: Date is 15-05-07 or 39217, Forumula Result = 1905 but under serial
number field it shows the correct result of = 2007