>Gregory
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>Have tried changing dates to chars and I get the same result. I have just moved to Office XP (was that wise?) BTW.
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>Colin

I'm using office XP as well

Can you include a snippet of the cursor you paste ? (including the dates !)

do you use _VFP.DataToClip(,,3) ?

Do not see why the char '=date(2002,1,1)' works over here an not in the uk