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Excel ignoring date format when saving to Text

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MattLemon - 13 May 2008 13:52 GMT
Hi,

I have a spreadsheet that look fine on the screen, perfectly formatted
date wise. It's a 2003 SP2 spreadsheet. When I save it to text (Tab
delimited) or any other text format it reverts to mm/dd/yyyy formating
instead of british dd/mm/yyyy.

I've checked all the regional settings on the machine and nothing
appears to be wrong with it.  Prior to an upgrade to 2003 it was
working fine.  I tried installing excel 2000 aswell but now that
doesn't work either.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Matt
Jim Rech - 13 May 2008 14:16 GMT
I switched to UK setting from US and started Excel 2003.  I pressed Ctrl-;
to get today's date in cell A1 and it appeared as 13/05/2008.  I saved to
"Text (tab delimited)" format and the date appeared exactly the same in the
text file.  What did I do wrong?

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