Excel does not displaying formatting correctly

I am currently running Excel 2000 on Windows NT 4.0.

I have a spreadsheet which contains dates in the custom format "dd/mm/yyyy".

Up until this morning the dates displayed fine, however, the dates are now
showing in general format, i.e. "21/01/2006" is showing as "38738".
If I select the cell the date is shown correctly in the formula bar, and
also if I press F2 it is shown correctly for editing. But as soon as I move
off the cell it goes back to showing in general format.

I have tried changing the cell formatting but nothing seems to work, can
anyone please help.

Thanks
David

Tools|Options|View|Uncheck Formulas

You may have hit the short cut key for this toggle:
ctrl-` (ctrl-backquote, the key to the left of the 1/! on my USA keyboard)

Cookie wrote:
>
> I am currently running Excel 2000 on Windows NT 4.0.
>
> I have a spreadsheet which contains dates in the custom format "dd/mm/yyyy".
>
> Up until this morning the dates displayed fine, however, the dates are now
> showing in general format, i.e. "21/01/2006" is showing as "38738".
> If I select the cell the date is shown correctly in the formula bar, and
> also if I press F2 it is shown correctly for editing. But as soon as I move
> off the cell it goes back to showing in general format.
>
> I have tried changing the cell formatting but nothing seems to work, can
> anyone please help.
>
> Thanks
> David

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Dave Peterson

Dave,

Thanks very much, that solved my problem and everthing is now displaying
correctly.

Much appreciated.

David


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

> Tools|Options|View|Uncheck Formulas
>
> You may have hit the short cut key for this toggle:
> ctrl-` (ctrl-backquote, the key to the left of the 1/! on my USA keyboard)
>
> Cookie wrote:
> >
> > I am currently running Excel 2000 on Windows NT 4.0.
> >
> > I have a spreadsheet which contains dates in the custom format "dd/mm/yyyy".
> >
> > Up until this morning the dates displayed fine, however, the dates are now
> > showing in general format, i.e. "21/01/2006" is showing as "38738".
> > If I select the cell the date is shown correctly in the formula bar, and
> > also if I press F2 it is shown correctly for editing. But as soon as I move
> > off the cell it goes back to showing in general format.
> >
> > I have tried changing the cell formatting but nothing seems to work, can
> > anyone please help.
> >
> > Thanks
> > David
>
> --
>
> Dave Peterson
>