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A Sheet Error for dates I can't explain
I am making sheet to check the receipt and ctalog of pay stubs.
I get one every two weeks. I have been using: A1 has the header "CY 06" A2 has the week "01-13-06" (Formar Cell, Date "03-08-98" Note: Office 2000) A3 had formula =A2+14 This reutrns #VALUE! whereas this formula in cells B3, C3, D3, E3 for the headers "CY 07", "CY 08", "CY 09", "CY 10" returns the entered date plus fourteen days. I went over to the K column added the date "01-13-06" and tried again and got the same error. Is there something about this date in Excel that is... cosmic? It did comopensate for the leap-year in CY 08. So... ? |
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A Sheet Error for dates I can't explain
Are you sure A2 is actually a number formatted as date, or could it be text.
Text would give this problem. -- Ian -- "Armor" wrote in message ... I am making sheet to check the receipt and ctalog of pay stubs. I get one every two weeks. I have been using: A1 has the header "CY 06" A2 has the week "01-13-06" (Formar Cell, Date "03-08-98" Note: Office 2000) A3 had formula =A2+14 This reutrns #VALUE! whereas this formula in cells B3, C3, D3, E3 for the headers "CY 07", "CY 08", "CY 09", "CY 10" returns the entered date plus fourteen days. I went over to the K column added the date "01-13-06" and tried again and got the same error. Is there something about this date in Excel that is... cosmic? It did comopensate for the leap-year in CY 08. So... ? |
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A Sheet Error for dates I can't explain
Yes, in fact the range A1:A28 a
Format Cells Category Date 03-Mar-98 I even tried: Format Cells Category Custom dd-mmm-yy And only the A2 A28 has an issue with the date. I went to column K, K1 cell, entered "01-13-06" which returned "13-Jan-06". In K2 entered "=K1+14" which returned "#VALUE!" Every other cell I enter a date other than "01-13-06" and add 14 days in the next lower cell, returns the date plus 14 days. I can then drag for "auto-fill" until I get an end-of-the-year for December and get dates 14 days apart. I don't get it. "Ian" wrote: Are you sure A2 is actually a number formatted as date, or could it be text. Text would give this problem. -- Ian -- "Armor" wrote in message ... I am making sheet to check the receipt and ctalog of pay stubs. I get one every two weeks. I have been using: A1 has the header "CY 06" A2 has the week "01-13-06" (Formar Cell, Date "03-08-98" Note: Office 2000) A3 had formula =A2+14 This reutrns #VALUE! whereas this formula in cells B3, C3, D3, E3 for the headers "CY 07", "CY 08", "CY 09", "CY 10" returns the entered date plus fourteen days. I went over to the K column added the date "01-13-06" and tried again and got the same error. Is there something about this date in Excel that is... cosmic? It did comopensate for the leap-year in CY 08. So... ? |
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A Sheet Error for dates I can't explain
This used to happen to me too when formatting dates. That way can be
misleading unfortunately. The best way to verify if a date is text or number is by using this formula. =isnumber(place cell reference here). This will return True or False. =istext will work too. To change a date text to number you can simply multiply the cell by 1. e.g. =A1*1. "Armor" wrote: Yes, in fact the range A1:A28 a Format Cells Category Date 03-Mar-98 I even tried: Format Cells Category Custom dd-mmm-yy And only the A2 A28 has an issue with the date. I went to column K, K1 cell, entered "01-13-06" which returned "13-Jan-06". In K2 entered "=K1+14" which returned "#VALUE!" Every other cell I enter a date other than "01-13-06" and add 14 days in the next lower cell, returns the date plus 14 days. I can then drag for "auto-fill" until I get an end-of-the-year for December and get dates 14 days apart. I don't get it. "Ian" wrote: Are you sure A2 is actually a number formatted as date, or could it be text. Text would give this problem. -- Ian -- "Armor" wrote in message ... I am making sheet to check the receipt and ctalog of pay stubs. I get one every two weeks. I have been using: A1 has the header "CY 06" A2 has the week "01-13-06" (Formar Cell, Date "03-08-98" Note: Office 2000) A3 had formula =A2+14 This reutrns #VALUE! whereas this formula in cells B3, C3, D3, E3 for the headers "CY 07", "CY 08", "CY 09", "CY 10" returns the entered date plus fourteen days. I went over to the K column added the date "01-13-06" and tried again and got the same error. Is there something about this date in Excel that is... cosmic? It did comopensate for the leap-year in CY 08. So... ? |
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A Sheet Error for dates I can't explain
Yes, I will try this. As an aside, I took the file to work to tinker with
it. Here, I have Excel 2003 and I did not get the error. So, I am thinking what you say maybe true, but I have tried to isolate any and all formatting of thecell and actualltrying to chage the format from a date to general and back to try an remove any "pre-disposition" to the format. I will let you know. Thank You. "mrscott" wrote: This used to happen to me too when formatting dates. That way can be misleading unfortunately. The best way to verify if a date is text or number is by using this formula. =isnumber(place cell reference here). This will return True or False. =istext will work too. To change a date text to number you can simply multiply the cell by 1. e.g. =A1*1. "Armor" wrote: Yes, in fact the range A1:A28 a Format Cells Category Date 03-Mar-98 I even tried: Format Cells Category Custom dd-mmm-yy And only the A2 A28 has an issue with the date. I went to column K, K1 cell, entered "01-13-06" which returned "13-Jan-06". In K2 entered "=K1+14" which returned "#VALUE!" Every other cell I enter a date other than "01-13-06" and add 14 days in the next lower cell, returns the date plus 14 days. I can then drag for "auto-fill" until I get an end-of-the-year for December and get dates 14 days apart. I don't get it. "Ian" wrote: Are you sure A2 is actually a number formatted as date, or could it be text. Text would give this problem. -- Ian -- "Armor" wrote in message ... I am making sheet to check the receipt and ctalog of pay stubs. I get one every two weeks. I have been using: A1 has the header "CY 06" A2 has the week "01-13-06" (Formar Cell, Date "03-08-98" Note: Office 2000) A3 had formula =A2+14 This reutrns #VALUE! whereas this formula in cells B3, C3, D3, E3 for the headers "CY 07", "CY 08", "CY 09", "CY 10" returns the entered date plus fourteen days. I went over to the K column added the date "01-13-06" and tried again and got the same error. Is there something about this date in Excel that is... cosmic? It did comopensate for the leap-year in CY 08. So... ? |
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A Sheet Error for dates I can't explain
MrScott
It would appear that opening it with the 2003 version of Excel has cured any of the error generating issues. I really do not want to try an replicate the error. What I did though, was write down your instructions in my system log... just in case I hit this again. Thank You. "Armor" wrote: Yes, I will try this. As an aside, I took the file to work to tinker with it. Here, I have Excel 2003 and I did not get the error. So, I am thinking what you say maybe true, but I have tried to isolate any and all formatting of thecell and actualltrying to chage the format from a date to general and back to try an remove any "pre-disposition" to the format. I will let you know. Thank You. "mrscott" wrote: This used to happen to me too when formatting dates. That way can be misleading unfortunately. The best way to verify if a date is text or number is by using this formula. =isnumber(place cell reference here). This will return True or False. =istext will work too. To change a date text to number you can simply multiply the cell by 1. e.g. =A1*1. "Armor" wrote: Yes, in fact the range A1:A28 a Format Cells Category Date 03-Mar-98 I even tried: Format Cells Category Custom dd-mmm-yy And only the A2 A28 has an issue with the date. I went to column K, K1 cell, entered "01-13-06" which returned "13-Jan-06". In K2 entered "=K1+14" which returned "#VALUE!" Every other cell I enter a date other than "01-13-06" and add 14 days in the next lower cell, returns the date plus 14 days. I can then drag for "auto-fill" until I get an end-of-the-year for December and get dates 14 days apart. I don't get it. "Ian" wrote: Are you sure A2 is actually a number formatted as date, or could it be text. Text would give this problem. -- Ian -- "Armor" wrote in message ... I am making sheet to check the receipt and ctalog of pay stubs. I get one every two weeks. I have been using: A1 has the header "CY 06" A2 has the week "01-13-06" (Formar Cell, Date "03-08-98" Note: Office 2000) A3 had formula =A2+14 This reutrns #VALUE! whereas this formula in cells B3, C3, D3, E3 for the headers "CY 07", "CY 08", "CY 09", "CY 10" returns the entered date plus fourteen days. I went over to the K column added the date "01-13-06" and tried again and got the same error. Is there something about this date in Excel that is... cosmic? It did comopensate for the leap-year in CY 08. So... ? |
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