Well it appears that ADO or VBA or the combination of these speak American despite what any regional settings on the machine might be. Formatting with dd/mm/yyyy either as part of the automation or manually afterwards makes no difference.
What I've had to do is make the column Text-type, let them populate and then post-process each cell value to switch month and day. Kludgy, but there we are. Thanks all. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
