>Thanks for that Dragan. Again, I suspected I'd have to do something as nasty, involved and faffy as this, but was hoping someone would say something like "Use the VFP ConvertTheirDataToYoursInAnyFormat() function" Suppose I'll have to wait for VFP 12 for that! :-)

Yeah, so they said about artificial intelligence - in the future, it will be provided by health system just like artificial teeth. "Don't drop dead, donkey, till the grass goes green".