>I should have been more specific - it was late and I was tired...now it's early.
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>The exported cells LOOK like dates, ("28-Apr-00" "02-Jul-01") but sorting on those values sort as if it's some kind of character field. Empty values show as " - -". Applying a different kind of date format mostly does nothing.
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>>>I don't remember ever having problems here. However, perhaps you can convert to character before exporting.
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>Yes, for viewing the dates look ok, but the converted values done't seem to act right.
Saved as text, then. There should be Excel functions to convert those to dates, but I am not sure about the details.
Hilmar.
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