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> On Oct 2, 2021, at 8:48 AM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com.invalid> 
> wrote:
> 
> At 17:12 02/10/2021 +0200, Martin Groenescheij wrote:
>> It is also possible that there is a User-defined Cell Format like 
>> DD/MM/YYYYYY entered by mistake.
> 
> No, that makes no sense. The questioner asked about Find & Replace converting 
> 03/03/20 to 03/03/202020 - nothing about changing cell formats (which is what 
> he *should* have been doing). That could happen only if the original entry 
> had been as text into such a foolishly-formatted cell. Occam's razor tells us 
> not to assume two such mistakes!

Exactly. I was looking at settings yesterday and there is one that controls the 
automatic interpretation of YY to YYYY including which year > 29 is 19YY vs 
20YY.

So here we are with someone having a Y2K issue :-)

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