00-jan-00

[Gail]

In SOME of my worksheets when i enter a date it always comes up as 00-Jan-00.
this does not occur in all sheets and no matter what i do re formatting the
cell i get the same thing. I have confirmed that Tools;Options is using 1900
and NOT 1904 system. I don't recall ever changing this. this problem
starting occuring after Y2K changeover. at one time i had a knowledge base
printout addressing this but have since lost it. I have searched Microsoft
KB again but could not find anything on this. It is strange that within the
same workbook another sheet does not have this issue when i tested for it.
Some worksheets some times driving me crazy!--
Thank you for your help
Gail

 

[Ken Wright]

If you entered Todays date in a cell, and got 00-Jan-00, what does it become if
you format the cell as Number and add a couple of decimal places?

 

[Gail]

I type in 11/5/2004 and teh result is 0.001097804. I format this to Number
with two decimal places and get 0.00. I format this to dd-mth-yy and get
00-jan-00

 

[Ken Wright]

What happens if you type in 38296 and then format that as date - It should be
11/06/2004

If it's not, then what happens to a cell formatted as number when you type in
that same number - Does the number change before your eyes as you hit enter?

 

[Dave Peterson]

see your post in .misc

In SOME of my worksheets when i enter a date it always comes up as 00-Jan-00.
this does not occur in all sheets and no matter what i do re formatting the
cell i get the same thing. I have confirmed that Tools;Options is using 1900
and NOT 1904 system. I don't recall ever changing this. this problem
starting occuring after Y2K changeover. at one time i had a knowledge base
printout addressing this but have since lost it. I have searched Microsoft
KB again but could not find anything on this. It is strange that within the
same workbook another sheet does not have this issue when i tested for it.
Some worksheets some times driving me crazy!--
Thank you for your help
Gail

 

[Ken Wright]

Dave Peterson has just the nail on the head in one of your other posts. If I
enter =11/05/2004 I get 0.001097804, whereas if I enter just 11/05/2004 then I
get a date.

From Dave's post, you either have a Lotus transition option enabled or you are
entering dates preceded with an = sign:-

Tools|options|transition tab
uncheck "transition formula entry"

and don't put an = before any dates.