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how do i get the year code for 2006

I'm not sure what you mean. What sort of year code? Can you explain a bit more about your project and what you need?

In the spreadsheet that i downloaded, it indicates one of the entries you need to make is the year code. it provides the following year codes but nothing for the current year 2006.

2. Find the year code: 1996 = 35064; 1997 = 35430; 1998 = 35795; 1999 = 36160; 2000 = 0; 2001 = 366; 2002 = 731; 2003 = 1096; 2004 = 1461; 2005 = 1827.

Looks to me like the code for 2006 would be 2192 (which I got by adding 365 to 1827, which is the code for 2005)