Trouble with Excel serial numbers to Dates

Hi,
I am new to Numbers V3 (latest) but know Excel and Open Office
I have converted an Open Office worksheet to an Excel .xls which was then opened in Numbers.
The dates entered on the OO and Excel sheets appear in date format correctly and I then calculate the length (of rental) from 2 dates.
In Numbers the cells now contain the date serial numbers but I cannot get a date to appear. Frustrating!
I have opened format and tried to change the format of one cell to "date". Nothing happens.
My first thought is that I am not doing the formatting correctly. I click on the brush, open the window, change Data Format to Date and Time.... Then how do I accept this? I see no "Done" button so I just close the window by clicking the brush again and nothing changes. When I reopen the format window it still shows my data as a number. However if I change say the "Fill colour" section underneath, when I close format it changes the cell colour.
This happens in the cell I imported AND in a new cell in a new column.
I notice that if in the same cell I enter 20/11/2013 the Format box shows "Date and Time". If I then enter a number the Format box changes to "Number" so it is perhaps not here that I change the format.
What am I missing?
Henry

Henry,
Simply stated, Numbers doesn't recognize date serial numbers. Your input will have to be in a form that looks like a date to a human.
If an input looks like a number, that's how Numbers will treat it.
Jerry

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