Cannot paste a block of formulas from one sheet to another

[Anon]

I am using Excel 2003, SP3

I used to never have problems pasting a block of formulas from one
spreadsheet to another (paste special, formulas).

Today it is pasting the values from the original spreadsheet instead of the
formulas.
The spreadsheets are nearly identical except for file name (using batch
numbers as file names.).

Ideas?

Thanks

 

[Dave Peterson]

Do you have both workbooks open in the same instance of excel?

If you have two instances of excel running, you can see this.

 

[Anon]

ahhhh yes, two instances. it always seems to default to this... though-
never remembered it being a problem before.

I'll give it a try.
ahh- yes that was it!!

Surprised I had not run into this before!

Thanks

Paul

 

[Anon]

It works now, pasting formulas, but dates (format mm/dd/yy) are the only
things posting funky- it seems to subtract 4 years or so from the date when
pasting a date (not a formula), when using "Paste, special, values into the
database.''


Thanks again
Paul

 

[Dave Peterson]

Saved from a previous post:

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 (or Subtract) depending on which workbook you want
to fix.

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.

Most windows users use 1900 as the base date. Mac users (mostly??) use 1904 as
the base date.

 

[Anon]

ahhh so very clear now... <G>

Thanks

Saved from a previous post:

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 (or Subtract) depending on which workbook you
want
to fix.

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.

Most windows users use 1900 as the base date. Mac users (mostly??) use
1904 as
the base date.