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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (8416)	8/25/1999 11:46:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Will Excel work or not? Detailed reading gets me lost and the answer is not clear. Can you folks give me a straight answer? Thanks. Pete (Phytorx@lanset.com), August 25, 1999 In simple terms, Excel has a function which is used in some formulas to reference dates ... Seems that when you enter =Date(00,23,08) you get 08/23/1900 To get around this when using this particular function simply type in =Date(2000,08,23) and you will get the correct 08/23/2000 This won't matter much to the average spreadsheet user, because the average spreadsheet user doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground anyway, and it won't matter to large corporations who for the most part who probably process their complex amorts etc on larger proprietary systems. Where it will show up is in the small to med. sized company that had just enough money to hire vinny's cousin who is a wizard to make us these macros.......you get the picture. Hope that helps. Gordon (g_gecko_69@hotmail.com), August 25, 1999. MICROSOFT'S MASSIVE Y2K CAMPAIGN SEATTLE (August 19) -- Microsoft's massive email and direct-mail campaign, urging 80 million customers to get their PCs ready to ward off the millennium bug, is well underway, the company's Y2K czar told a House panel Tuesday ... "This could be the largest mass mailing outside of tax forms," Jones said ... Microsoft's three-paragraph message directs users to Microsoft's Y2K Web site for bug fixes. "In order to work properly after the year 2000, some Microsoft products may require a year 2000 software update," ... wired.com What about all of those people and businesses who are NOT on the net??? I don't wanna click thru and download all of those links. I just wanna a CD that's gonna do it for me. [Maybe I'll pretend I'm not on the net and Microsoft will eventually have a CD that I can use to make my Microsoft software compliant.] Wishful thinking? Cheryl