{"id":7803,"date":"2021-11-25T03:16:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T03:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=7803"},"modified":"2021-11-25T03:17:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T03:17:27","slug":"solved-excel-date-problem","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/office\/excel-date-problem\/10114.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved Excel Date Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of a sudden I have a problem with entering dates in a spreadsheet which I&#8217;ve used for years!!<br \/>\nThe cells in my date column are formatted as dates (surprise, surprise) but now when I enter a date e.g. 23\/01\/10 the cell changes to 00\/01\/1900 and the date is preceded by the &#8220;=&#8221; sign??<br \/>\nI have tried reformatting to a custom date and also using format painter from a correct date cell &#8211; same thing happens??<br \/>\nAm I missing something obvious?? HELP!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":3},"question-category":[53],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7803","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-office"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7803"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}