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Never mind... its working now (don't know why)

Postby U3V6YW5uZQ » Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:08:02 GMT 

Peter!  Never mind... I re-saved the Excel workbook as "V3" and for some 
reason, the dates are now appearing as they should be.  I have no idea why.

I am, of course, still open to any suggestions or changes to the Word and/or 
Excel documents (as you have the time/desire).

Suz
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Re: Never mind... its working now (don't know why)

Postby Peter Jamieson » Fri, 09 Nov 2007 03:22:26 GMT 

I've had a quick look, and I think the problem is caused by the fact that 
some of the fields are only present in the first data row. In this case, the 
Excel driver/provider may get a bit confused as to the data type. If you 
duplicate that data for the other rows instead of leaving it blank (if 
that's an option) I suspect things will go much better.

(FWIW What happens here is that when I first preview the data, I see a 
5-digit number instead of the date, as you do, but after that things seem 
OK.)

-- 
Peter Jamieson
 http://www.**--****.com/
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Re: Never mind... its working now (don't know why)

Postby U3V6YW5uZQ » Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:38:06 GMT

hanks Peter... I had already copied the format down to row 250 (I'm still
trying to work out a way to programatically have Excel copy down to the next
row). I'm thinking the problem was the date format was originally "Custom"
-- and when Word encountered it, it didn't know what to do with it.

Regardless, it seems to be working fine now.

Thanks again!

"Peter Jamieson" wrote:

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