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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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>The problem is that VFP ouputs " - -" for empty dates not that Excel shows something that is not there.
I tried blank fields date_field, but this didn't help. It would be quite complex task to fix it in Excel using my routine.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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