>When I do a copy to mySpredsheet type XLS in FP2.5 dates come into Excel as character
>When a user sorts on a date he gets all januaries all februaries etc.
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>How can that be done right so the user can actually sort on a date column???

Hi, Peter.
It's not a nice solution, but the best thing we came up was to add a column with DTOS( datefield ) for sorting purposes. DTOS formats the date as a YYYYMMDD string, so it's always good ordered.