Date change with column paste

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shhhhane - Aug 29, 2008 at 10:02 PM
 pleb - May 8, 2013 at 09:34 AM
Hello,


Whenever I try to paste the dates and times from one spreadsheet to another, the dates changes from 2008 to 2004. Why won't the dates just hold when I copy and paste from one doc to another. I have excel 2004 for Mac.

Thanks,

-Shane

4 responses

Seems that Excel for Mac uses a 1904 date system to calculate dates. Don't ask me why this is different, but you can change this for each file in the Preferences/Calculation pane. Simply uncheck the "1904 date system" setting.
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I had the same issue, and this fixed it. Any idea how to make this a global change, since it seems that I can only change the active workbook preference and I will have this same issue on a continual basis.
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Hi,
do you know how to do it in new macs? cant find the calculation pane under preferences. thanks!
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Thank You!!!
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that was an easy fix! thanks! :)
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That just saved me a few hours of correcting data. Thank you so much!
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Thanks so much, this WORKS!
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For people that have the mac file only and don't have either a Mac or Excel for Mac.
I don't have one on hand so I had to save the file as CSV and then reopen it.
Make sure you chose the right date format - if you have hours/minutes/seconds you might lose them.
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Thankyou!
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andrewsbkk007 Posts 7 Registration date Thursday May 1, 2008 Status Member Last seen February 24, 2009 4
Aug 30, 2008 at 08:59 AM
have you checked if your system time is properly set ?

it may be due to this and set it to the real date
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