# Microsoft Knowledge Base

## XL5: Unexpected Settings/Values If 4.0 Workbook Opened in 5.0

Last reviewed: March 27, 1997 Article ID: Q107977
5.00 5.00c 7.00 | 5.00 5.00a
    WINDOWS         | MACINTOSH
kbusage kbtlc The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Excel for Windows, versions 5.0, 5.0c
- Microsoft Excel for the Macintosh, versions 5.0, 5.0a
- Microsoft Excel for Windows 95, version 7.0

## SUMMARY

In Microsoft Excel, all sheets in a workbook share the following calculation settings:

- 1904 Date System
- Precision as Displayed
- Save External Link Values

In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, these options were set individually for each sheet.

Because of this difference, when you open a Microsoft Excel 4.0 workbook in Microsoft Excel version 5.0 or later, you may find that some of your sheets are using the incorrect 1904 Date System, Precision as Displayed, or Save External Link Values settings.

## MORE INFORMATION

When you open a Microsoft Excel version 4.0 workbook in either Microsoft Excel version 5.0 or 7.0, the 1904 Date System, Precision as Displayed, and Save External Link Values settings for the last sheet in the workbook are applied to all of the sheets in the workbook. For example, if you have a Microsoft Excel 4.0 Workbook that contains the following sheets and settings

       Sheet    1904 Date  Precision as  Save External
       name     System     Displayed     Link Values
       -----------------------------------------------

       Sheet1   no         yes           yes
       Sheet2   yes        no            no
       Sheet3   no         no            yes

and you open the workbook in either Microsoft Excel version 5.0 or 7.0, the sheets will all use the settings specified the last sheet (Sheet3 in this example). If Sheet2 is the last sheet in the workbook, its settings will be used by all of the other sheets.

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> Additional reference words: 5.00 5.00a 5.00c 7.00
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> Version : 5.00 5.00c 7.00 | 5.00 5.00a
> Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: March 27, 1997
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