(got it after much, much,much reading and trying) VictorV

Never mind, I thought of a solution. VictorV

Victor Vogelpoel wrote: Happy new year and don't let Windows XP get you down! No problem, I use Win2k :-D Elaine (conservative fluffy tigress) The tigress is here :-D

The Paradox/Excel serial date is the number of days since 1-1-1900. I was wondering if anyone knew a fast algorithm to convert a serial date to day-month year and vise versa... VictorV

Joel Lucsy wrote: It's very inconsistant and I believe many people have this problem. I'm not crazy! I'm not crazy! I'm not crazy! Sigh, that's a relief! None of my collegues have these problems and MS KB doesn't mention the problems at all. I thought I was going nuts! Thanx for the response. VictorV

Oh, That's pretty neat. I was under the impression that my computer was a moron... but apparently it has some brains[good code]. Thanks, ~ Selevercin

In Unix you could create a .plan file, and when someone finger'd you (a unix command - ooh-err!) it would display the .plan file. It was just a neat way of quickly checking out who was doing what. cheers, Chris Maunder