[mso] Re: Excel 2000 date question

Robert, 
When I put your data into Excel cell B1 returns 5, the length of the number
that represents the number of days (37781) since 1st Jan 1900

Regards

Geoff Culbertson
Petersfield, UK

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Sent: 11 April 2007 19:42
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Subject: [mso] Excel 2000 date question

Suppose A1 contains:
09-Jun-03
Which is a date for June 9, 2003. If I put in cell B1 this formula:
=LEN(A1)

Why would I get 4 as a result? It is longer than four characters and
numbers.

Thanks.

Robert

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