I am trying to copy dates from Excel spreadsheet to another but when I paste
the date is different. Example: 04/15/85 in orginal, when I paste it it
reads 04/14/81

I have tried the different date setting in format cells but nothing is
working.

Any idea?

Kelly

Below is a quoted posting from a few days ago. It explains your problem and
proposes a fix.

Start Dave's post........................

Dave Peterson Jan 4, 3:04 pm

I like to keep my base date as 1900. If you do to, maybe this saved post will
help:

One workbook was using a base year of 1900 and the other was using 1904.
(tools|options|calculation tab|1904 date system)

One way to add those four years back is to find an empty cell, put 1462 into
that cell.

Copy that cell.

Select your range that contains the dates. Edit|PasteSpecial|click Add (in the
operation box).

You may have to reformat the cell as a date (mine turned to a 5 digit number).
But it should work.

You may want to do it against a copy...just in case.

(I'm not sure which one you'll fix. You may want to edit|pastespecial|click
subtract.)

Most windows users use 1900 as the base date. Mac users (mostly??) use 1904 as
the base date.

End Dave's post................


Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:07:04 -0800, "Kelly C" <Kelly
wrote:

I am trying to copy dates from Excel spreadsheet to another but when I paste
the date is different. Example: 04/15/85 in orginal, when I paste it it
reads 04/14/81

I have tried the different date setting in format cells but nothing is
working.

Any idea?