>I am converting xslx to xls
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>This is my code
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>oXL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
>oXL.Workbooks.Open("c:\citisprint\attachxls\latest.xlsx")
>oXL.ActiveWorkbook.Saveas("c:\citisprint\attachxls\latest.xls", 39)
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>Conversion works fine except that the date in the xslsx file of 24/10/16 gets converted to 42667 in the xls file
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>Any ideas
>
>Colin

In Excel, {^2016-10-24} is just the representation, as a date, of the number 42667. Dates are numbers, as offsets from {^1899-12-30}. That is, if you add {^1899-12-30} to the number in the cell, you'll get the date displayed when the cell is formatted as a date.