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BWGames

Hi,

This is perplexing me - I've got a sheet that when I set a cell to a
display format of..say Date, and enter 30/12/2003 (UK format), it displays
ok in the formula bar, as the date, but in the cell it becomes 37985. I
thought it could be set to Number format, as opposed to Date, but it
definitely is set to Date.

Opening a new workbook works fine, but obviously I can't do that, as I've
done all the work in this one...

Anyone got any ideas as to why this is occuring?

Thanks,

Ben
 
BWGames said:
Hi,

This is perplexing me - I've got a sheet that when I set a cell to a
display format of..say Date, and enter 30/12/2003 (UK format), it displays
ok in the formula bar, as the date, but in the cell it becomes 37985. I
thought it could be set to Number format, as opposed to Date, but it
definitely is set to Date.
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If you format 30-Dec-2003 as number, the result is 37985

How are you checking that the cell is formatted as Date?

Have you tried formatting it as Date "again" ?
 
If you format 30-Dec-2003 as number, the result is 37985

How are you checking that the cell is formatted as Date?

Have you tried formatting it as Date "again" ?
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Yep, tried all that.

What I don't understand is that it only affects that *sheet*. Any other
sheet in that workbook is fine...

Tried formatting it as any type of date, still get the same. Any cell in
that sheet as far as I can see exhibits that.

I select the entire sheet, format cell, date, still no go...

http://www.bwgames.net/excel.JPG is an example. Its definitely formatted as
Date, the 'format cell' shows it as date...
 
Suspect you have the sheet in View formulas mode. do Ctrl+tilde to toggle
it back to normal mode.

or with the sheet active, do Tools=>Options=>view page and uncheck Formulas.
 
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