Comments on: Excel 2008, Copy / Pasting date field, wrong data….

By: Darren Cornwell

Darren Cornwell — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 22:42:41 +0000

Once you close the preference dialog box, it’s saved as far as I know.

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:10:54 +0000

Is there a way once you have clicked off the “Use the 1904 Date System” to keep that as the default setting?

By: Fabio

Fabio — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:10:08 +0000

Thank you! I would never find that out by myself! Can’t believe that’s a default option!!

By: Megan B.

Megan B. — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:22:02 +0000

Thank you so much for writing this!!! We were going crazy trying to figure out this issue, and it was such a simple fix!!!

By: CindyJanesAttic

CindyJanesAttic — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:56:59 +0000

Thank you so very much! I’ve been trying to combine worksheets from separate workbooks into one workbook, and the date change error was creating a nightmare. The data is too extensive to change one by one, so I am thrilled that you figured it out and published it for the rest of us! Thanks!

By: tshiunghan

tshiunghan — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 05:26:13 +0000

Yeah, thanks. I was wondering why excel was pasting the wrong dates into my new sheet. This entry seems to be the only coherent fix I could find off of Google.

By: NG

NG — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:18:03 +0000

oh my god, thank you SO much for posting this. I just tore my hair out for an hour.

By: Microsoft Basher

Microsoft Basher — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:50:09 +0000

Why does Microsoft think they have to “help” people”??? The people they’re “helping” are those with limited user skills, and their “help” does nothing but frustrate those of us who don’t need it. This date issue is a perfect example, as are other features that anticipate what they think you want, leading you down a path where you have to constantly undo all of the “help” they provide. If someone has an old system that can’t recognize dates prior to 1904, they’re also dealing with plenty of other functionality issues, so why should the rest of us suffer so that they have one less issue to deal with?

I hate Microsoft.

By: Mashook

Mashook — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:46:10 +0000

Actually, this is Microsoft stupidity carried into both Windows and Mac OSX ports. This is equal opportunity foolishness. This was the default setting on my Windows XP copy as well as my Mac copy.

By: Adeline

Adeline — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 09:44:02 +0000

Thank you!!!! I have been having this problem for a while now (since I started using Office 2008) and all this time I just manually reinserted the dates (how tedious!). But right now I’m working on a rather large data, so it’s no good if I have to manually change it one by one. So thanks a lot for the info!