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ituryu
Jan 22, 2020Brass Contributor
#SPILL! From a Referenced Merged Cell.
Hi everyone, I have a spreadsheet that I'm trying to build for my work flow to enable track my daily sales activities and simultaneously compute my percentage earnings per customer. For me to achieve...
Rebecca_L4
Oct 15, 2020Copper Contributor
PeterBartholomew1 yes, that is exactly what's going on here. I don't know why Microsoft did it this way. The average consumer does not think in terms of "days since 1900." I'll just continue to type the dates in long form. Thanks!
PeterBartholomew1
Oct 15, 2020Silver Contributor
Ah, that would be because Excel's dates are designed to support calculation.
Your 'long form' comprises the number of times the moon has circuited the Earth, with part periods represented by the number of times the Earth has rotated on its axis and finishing with the number of times the Earth has circuited the Sun since some event deemed to be of importance. BTW, why do you place the smallest interval in the middle?
You see the problem?