dates change when I copy and paste

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I have a report that has columns for Day of week and a column for th
date(10/15/04) but when I copy and paste to another excel worksheet th
date changes from ex: 10/15/04 to 10/13/08. Any ideas why this woul
happen. It's a pretty lengthy report and I hate to always have t
change each date. Help. :
 
Hi
both workbooks have different date setting (1900 versu 1904 base). Goto
the menu: 'Tools - options - Calculation' to make them identical prior
to copying data
 
Just to add to Frank's reply...

Saved from a previous post:

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.
 
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