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I am exporting some data from Access into Excel. Each record has a date
assigned with it and that is a key record. The date is showing up in Excel
as a long integer number, which is apparently how Access stores dates. I
need to convert the date back to a standard date format. I have tried
changing the format of the cell and that didn't work. Any ideas on how to
accomplish this?

What do the long integer numbers look like? (give several examples)

Biff

quot;JD McLeodquot; gt; wrote in message
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gt;I am exporting some data from Access into Excel. Each record has a date
gt; assigned with it and that is a key record. The date is showing up in
gt; Excel
gt; as a long integer number, which is apparently how Access stores dates. I
gt; need to convert the date back to a standard date format. I have tried
gt; changing the format of the cell and that didn't work. Any ideas on how to
gt; accomplish this?