>>In Excel automation, how to display date fields in DD/MM/YYYY format. At present it
>>is displayed as MM/DD/YYYY format. thnaks in advance.
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>You can ask Excel:
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>Start recording a macro, and give the command - in this case, change the date format. Then, stop recording the macro.
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>Now, look at the macro; you will see code similar to:
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>Selection.NumberFormat = "dd-mm-yyyy;@"
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>Now apply this to a cell, column, or range, for example:
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>loSheet.Cells(5,4).NumberFormat = "dd-mm-yyyy;@"
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>(Does somebody know what the "@" at the end means?)

"@" usually means the cell is viewed as text, not as a number or whatever.