00/01/1900 in MS Excel

 
00/01/1900 is zero i.e. 0 formatted as a date ‘dd/mm/yyyy’
 
Custom Formats in MS Excel accept multiple arguments, so if you want a 0 but formatted as a blank then use a custom format
 
dd/mm/yyyy;;
 
that’s 2 x ;; on the end, indicating put nothing if you get a zero

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