>Are you sure this isn't just an issue of how Excel is formatting the date column?


Hmmm...You may be right, I just tried to export using the XL5 setting instead of XLS and it output the dates correctly...weird, anyone have any explainations? A way to make XLS do the same thing? What's odd is that when I exported using XLS on the EXPORT command it output the dates in text, not as date fields...I dunno, whatever, I guess that's the solution, to export in Excel 5.0 format.

Thanks David.:)