Peter,

The best thing I can recommend is to use Office Automation to create the spreadsheet. I would assume that if your having a problem formatting dates, you are going to have a problem with other formatting also. Using Automation will give you complete control over the formatting.

PF

>When I export a table containing a DATE field to a XL5 file in VFP 5.0, the date fields are always interpreted as text, not dates. I have tried fiddling with the SET DATE command, I have setup the date format in the Windows control panel and have tried with different language versions of Windows and Excel, all to no avail. Does anyone have any suggestion?
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>Thanks!