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WHY IS MY DATE FORMATTED COLUMN SHOWING A FIVE DIGIT NUMBER? Eg: 24-Nov-04 is
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Hi Gveames,

WHY IS MY DATE FORMATTED COLUMN SHOWING A FIVE DIGIT NUMBER?


Excel stores dates as a serial number derived from the number of days
elapsed since the beginning of 1900.

To convert the serial numbers to visual date representations,. try
formatting the relevant cells with a date (or custom) format.

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