[mso] Re: Excel Dates

i would suggest entering the dates as text.  they will still be searchable..    
and if the columns (f) is formated as date.. then your if statement should mess 
with it as "unknown" isn't a date.     depending on what you plan to do with 
that date column in the future if it's just for look up or search .. text field 
will work..  if your going to use the date in a calculations you can use i 
believe it's cdate("string") to convert it for use.. not sure about changing 
the start date though..
LarrysPCRemedies@xxxxxxx wrote: I have a spreadsheet of names with associated 
dates (dd-mmm-yyyy). Some of  
the entries do not have dates associated and are blank.
 
I have a column with the formula " =if(f3<>"",month(f3),"Unknown")"  to 
obtain the month number, if there is a date, or to display "Unknown", if a  
date is 
not present. 
 
As you must know, Microsoft, in their magnificence, has decided the  
epoch-origin of calendar time to be January 1, 1900, and because some of  the 
dates in 
my spreadsheet are pre-1900, instead of a month number, I  get a =value! 
error.
 
Is there a way to configure Excel to adjust Excel's beginning of time  to, 
say, January 1, 1800? Failing that, can someone suggest a technique I can  use 
to successfully overcome the =value! error?
 
,,,,,,, Larry  Berlinski
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