April- You might try S && D. '&' is the concatenation operator so Excel thinks = your asking for S and then the date. && will usually escape the = concatenation. -Anthony -----Original Message----- From: April Pace [mailto:4office@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:49 PM To: Office (E-mail) Subject: [mso] XL changing company name in headers! Help... Can somebody help me with a good work around for this... I have = a client who's company name is S&D... when we try to add this to a header = in XL 2000 it constantly changes it to S01/28/02 (or some date = variation)... Any idea's?? ************************************************************* 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=20 mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=3Dunsubscribe 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 ************************************************************* ************************************************************* 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?Subject=unsubscribe 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 *************************************************************