Nora,

You aren¹t doing anything wrong, but Excel doesn¹t natively handle dates
prior to 1900. I can¹t say from experience, but I did do some reading and
here is some background info and a few possible workarounds depending on
what you want to do with the date information.

http://www.exceluser.com/explore/earlydates.htm

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2114548,00.asp

http://j-walk.com/ss/excel/usertips/tip028.htm

Good luck!
-- 
Beth Phillips


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