Hi Robert, no, you were right to change the semicolon to comma, and it has nothing to do with the date changing. I'm in Brazil, and here (like in most countries except the USA) we use the point as a thousands separator and the comma in place of the decimal point, so Excel here uses semicolons instead of commas in formulas, to avoid confusion. When I sent the message to you, I changed the semicolons in my formula to commas, to agree with the american format, but one of them slipped by <G>. Wilson At 16:22 21/7/2004, Robert Carneal wrote: >I am not picking on Wilson, but I am making use of his formula with one >difference. He had: >---copy--- >=IF(AND(ISNUMBER(VALUE(LEFT(A1,4))),ISNUMBER(VALUE(MID(A1,6,2)));ISNUMBE >R(VALUE(RIGHT(A1,2)))),DATE(LEFT(A1,4),MID(A1,6,2),RIGHT(A1,2)),0) >---End--- > >I changed it to: >=IF(AND(ISNUMBER(VALUE(LEFT(A1,4))),ISNUMBER(VALUE(MID(A1,6,2)),ISNUMBER >(VALUE(RIGHT(A1,2)))),DATE(LEFT(A1,4),MID(A1,6,2),RIGHT(A1,2)),0) > >(I took the semi-colon out and used a comma.) Would my change be >responsible for this date changing? > >I am using Excel XP. > >Thank you. > >Robert ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************