[mso] Re: Excel Dates

John Walkenbach shares an addin that can help get Excel to accept dates prior 
to 1900 as a date for use in a calculation:
http://www.j-walk.com/ss/excel/usertips/tip028.htm
  Hope this helps,
   
  Hutch

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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