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Re: Excel 2007 numeric converted to date format

Norm

Dates are stored as numbers, as you may know. The integer portion is the number of days since 1/1/1900 or 1904 or some such - I forget. The decimal portion is the time of day - noon is .5

So maybe Excel is being over-helpful, as it often is, IMO. Does is display a date, or the original number? What are the numeric values when this happens? You might need to change cell format to see the number.

Vern

Norm Dennis wrote:
Hi guys,

I have an issue with Excel 2007 which appears to be intermittent.


I have some spreadsheets inside a workbook which is a fairly simple list of
transactions that get summarized into a set of totals.

The issue is that occasionally, when I open the spreadsheet the columns have
been converted to a date format.


Has anyone heard of, seen, had this issue?


TIA,



Norm Dennis





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