I use Excel extensively for my genealogy which uses pre-1900 years. It is a
real problem that MS can not provide an add-in for xdate rather than having
to purchase PUP 6.0.

However, my problem is that I created a spreadsheet under MS Office 97 where
an Exhibit ID is YYYY.MM.DD ... but, when my new MS Office Excel 2003 opens
the file it changes the format and I can not re-format it to the YYYY.MM.DD
format accurately. Since this spreadsheet was my Index, it is critical that
I have the original, accurate Exhibit ID.

How can I do this? I have a backup of the original file if I can figure out
what I need to do to the Excel template / addins before opening the old
version.

Bonita