dates in Excel 2003

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mpcobo

I have excel 2003 and a client has another older version. When copying a date
(ie 6/30/04) into a new excel 2003 spreadsheet I get an output showing 4
years earlier and sometimes 1 or 2 days off (ie 6/29/00). Is there a fix for
this? Desperately need help on this.
 
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Ron Rosenfeld

I have excel 2003 and a client has another older version. When copying a date
(ie 6/30/04) into a new excel 2003 spreadsheet I get an output showing 4
years earlier and sometimes 1 or 2 days off (ie 6/29/00). Is there a fix for
this? Desperately need help on this.
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Tools/Options/Calculation
Workbook Options
Make sure 1904 Date system is either selected or deselected on both machines.


--ron
 
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Dave Peterson

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.
 
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