Excel doesn't now and doesn't care what date format is set in VFP. You shoul use unambiguous date format like YYYY-MM-DD. Formating how dates are displayed in Excel is different story.

>I have store a date value in a excel worksheet use dd-mmm-yyyy' format
>it should be 8 Dec 2011, but the result give me 12 Aug 2011 in the cell
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>Why ?
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>SET DATE TO DMY
>oExcel.activesheet.Range("C2").NumberFormat ='dd-mmm-yyyy'   
>oExcel.activesheet.Range("C2").value = "08/12/2011"   
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