{"id":1048,"date":"2017-12-07T14:23:23","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2017-12-07T14:27:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T06:27:34","slug":"how-to-save-your-excel-document-kidnapped-by-strange-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/?p=1048","title":{"rendered":"How to save your Excel document kidnapped by &#8220;Strange date&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\">Have you ever encountered such a strange thing? The data in an Excel document is stored in a digital format, but when reopened, it is found that all the data has become a strange date format. And even if the correction is saved, it is still a strange date when open it again.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\"><strong>Add: The document is typically stored in a multinational format for multinational corporations.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1050\" src=\"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/6.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1063\" height=\"690\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\">Come on, let&#8217;s help you save this document!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\">Step 1: Open cell formatting anywhere in the document.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\">Step 2: Enter the Custom option to find a format that begins with the wildcard character &#8220;[$-f800]&#8221; (or [$-f400]).<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\">Step 3: Press DELETE.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\">Look, is your document back to normal?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\"><strong>What exactly is a strange date format?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\">In fact [$-f800] and [$-f400] are placeholders that force changes in cell formatting, where [$-f800] corresponds to the date format, and [$-f400] corresponds to a time format. Like what:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/120717_0623_Howtosaveyo1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"color: black; font-family: \u5b8b\u4f53;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Have you ever encountered such a strange thing?  &#8230; <a title=\"How to save your Excel document kidnapped by &#8220;Strange date&#8221;?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/?p=1048\" aria-label=\"\u9605\u8bfb How to save your Excel document kidnapped by &#8220;Strange date&#8221;?\">\u9605\u8bfb\u66f4\u591a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":3516,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owa.sodexo-cn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}