xdate in Windows 7

[Help with scheduling issue]

I finally entered the world of Windows 7, albeit only because my laptop died.
I am a historan who needs to calculate dates into the 18th century. Xdate
always worked just fine in Excel 2003, but when I load it into the new
computer, Windows 7 sees it as an old process and refuses to recognize it. I
need those date calculations, and I'm not thrilled with buying a later
version of Office - if it even is in the newer versions - because A) I don't
otherwise need it, and B) I've seen the recent version of Office and want no
part of it.

 

[Dave Peterson]

I bet you were using an addin by John Walkenbach:
http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/files/xdate.htm

 

[Hans Terkelsen]

I finally entered the world of Windows 7, albeit only because my laptop died.
I am a historan who needs to calculate dates into the 18th century. Xdate
always worked just fine in Excel 2003, but when I load it into the new
computer, Windows 7 sees it as an old process and refuses to recognize it. I
need those date calculations, and I'm not thrilled with buying a later
version of Office - if it even is in the newer versions - because A) I don't
otherwise need it, and B) I've seen the recent version of Office and want no
part of it.

Remember also the 400 year trick.
400 gregorian years is a whole number of weeks,
so everything except easter repeats every 400 years.
To get the weekday for 1/1/1800 look at 1/1/2200 for example.

Hans T.