-I opened a doc that had dates in it, i used a format to change the dates to
how I wanted them to display, that worked fine, saved the doc, uploaded it to
my program and it put a very different date then what I had entered, still in
date form but instead of the date i put in it inserted 05-20-40. I found this
out when I went in and checked my program I had uploaded the info into. I was
quite surprised to say the least, went back and checked my excel file and
again was quite surprised to find that the field now all held #s like 40150.
HELP!!! I uploaded a couple hundred files that now all have the wrong dates
in several places. This is a procedure I do several times a day and I have
never had this happen before. Any enlightenment would be most appreciated.

Rebecca

Your dates are probably O.K. It looks like the display format got lost. the
value 40150 is actually 3 December 2009.

Just re-format the cells to you liking.
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Gary''s Student - gsnu201001


"Rebecca" wrote:

> -I opened a doc that had dates in it, i used a format to change the dates to
> how I wanted them to display, that worked fine, saved the doc, uploaded it to
> my program and it put a very different date then what I had entered, still in
> date form but instead of the date i put in it inserted 05-20-40. I found this
> out when I went in and checked my program I had uploaded the info into. I was
> quite surprised to say the least, went back and checked my excel file and
> again was quite surprised to find that the field now all held #s like 40150.
> HELP!!! I uploaded a couple hundred files that now all have the wrong dates
> in several places. This is a procedure I do several times a day and I have
> never had this happen before. Any enlightenment would be most appreciated.
>
> Rebecca