>I created new spreadsheet, formated a column as "mm/dd/yyyy" and don't see anything in empty cells. Are you sure that cells are empty? I'm using Excel 2003, btw.
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The problem occurs after you do copy file to ... type xl5 where file has blank dates.
I'm using Excel 2003 too.
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