Excel 2000: Query returns date instead of number

K

Kreigh

I am working with a timesheet I created in Excel 2000. Cell K410 should
return a numeric answer to a query but instead answers ‘Feb 8’. No other
cells produce a fallacious result like this. How do I correct this apparent
bug?
 
J

joel

The file you are reading apparently has a string instead of a date.
You can either fix the file you are reading or write a macro tha
searches a column where a date is suppose to be and replaces the strin
dates with a real date. this is really a patch and if you are reading
file with manual entries then you may want to add Validation to th
column that only allows the users to enter a real date in specifi
cells. You also may have problems if you file is being used in mor
than one country where the date standards are different.

US standard : dd/mm/yy
England Standard : mm/dd/yy
 
M

Mike H

You could try formatting this cell a General
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Mike

When competing hypotheses are otherwise equal, adopt the hypothesis that
introduces the fewest assumptions while still sufficiently answering the
question.
 
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