Date formats don't work

Greetings.

I have Excel 2008 for Mac with all the updates. For some reason, date
formats no longer work, even in a new spreadsheet. For example, no
matter what the date format is, if I enter "8/8/8", that's just the
way it appears. All other formats seem to work okay, and date formats
USED to work okay. I have been though all the preferences, and I don't
know what I did to mess up the dates.

Thanks in advance!

KO'D

Hi King O,

Do you use an Excel template? Have you, perhaps, formatted the cell(s) in the template as text? If so, change their format to date.

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"King O'Diamonds" <98qf-swmyx.TakeThisOut@dea.spamcon.org> wrote in message news:bc1bb4lujscd21v2ofk09ecor8sao2k7j8@4ax.com...
> Greetings.
>
> I have Excel 2008 for Mac with all the updates. For some reason, date
> formats no longer work, even in a new spreadsheet. For example, no
> matter what the date format is, if I enter "8/8/8", that's just the
> way it appears. All other formats seem to work okay, and date formats
> USED to work okay. I have been though all the preferences, and I don't
> know what I did to mess up the dates.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> KO'D