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

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!

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:24:09 +0000

Thank you – this issue has been causing huge problems in a new template design I was creating. It was a relief to “untick” that 1904 box – instant fix.

By: craig iskowitz

craig iskowitz — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:11:06 +0000

I’ve been struggling with this stupid issue for the past few weeks. Now I find out that it’s a “feature” and not a bug? Who gives a shit about macs that are so old, they can’t recognize dates prior to 1904? What percentage of Excel users will ever enter a date prior to 1904? Why are 99% of Excel 2008 users being subjected to this default functionality, when it is a detriment to our work? Leave it to Microsoft to create software that makes the Mac *less* useful.