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How To avoid 1/1/1900 instead show blanks in dates in Excel.

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Formatting the whole column as mm/dd/yyyy;; will make it to show blanks instead of the 1/1/1900, to exclude in criteria >0

Alvaro Ortiz

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  1. Very neat trick, but not sure I see the value in using it.

    When you see 1/1/1900 in a Date cell that usually means an invalid value has been entered.
    If your doing a calculation, and the result will not be a Date, then perhaps the cell should not be formatted as a Date cell?

    Here is another way of doing the same thing, but this will display a Zero in the formula bar not 01/00/1900:

    Custom Format: [=0]””;General

    MIKE

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