Pasting Dates From Older SS Bumps year by 4

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I have an end user that seems to be pasting date formulas from olde
versions of Excel in to Excel 2000. After pasting the date it seem
to add 4 years. Is this a known bug that I have missed?

jo
 
I have an end user that seems to be pasting date formulas from older
versions of Excel in to Excel 2000. After pasting the date it seems
to add 4 years. Is this a known bug that I have missed?

jon
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Tools/Options/Calculation/Workbook Options
DEselect 1904 Date system


--ron
 
Just some more info:

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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