Date year changes between worksheets

[Bernadette]

We have a number of staff who have come across the same
problem ... copying tables from one worksheet into a new
worksheet and the year changes from (eg) Monday 12 January
2003 to Wednesday 12 January 2000. The Day and Date stay
the same but the year changes. We have tried to Paste
Special on all the options available but this has not
worked. Please advise ...

 

[Dave Peterson]

One workbook was using a base year of 1900 and the other was using 1904.
(tools|options|calculation tab|1904 date system)

One way to add those four years back is to find an empty cell, put 1462 into
that cell.

Copy that cell.

Select your range that contains the dates. Edit|PasteSpecial|click Add (in the
operation box).

You may have to reformat the cell as a date (mine turned to a 5 digit number).
But it should work.

You may want to do it against a copy...just in case.

(I'm not sure which one you'll fix. You may want to edit|pastespecial|click
subtract.)

Most windows users use 1900 as the base date. Mac users (mostly??) use 1904 as
the base date.