I created new spreadsheet, formated a column as "mm/dd/yyyy" and don't see anything in empty cells. Are you sure that cells are empty? I'm using Excel 2003, btw.

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>We have set date format as "mm/dd/yyyy" in Excel. This works nice except that for empty dates it shows separators. I could not find the format that will not show separators for blank dates.
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>Do you know a simple solution to this problem?