I have a program that opens up an excel file and grabs any line that has a "Y" and writes it to a text file. BUT when the user changes the "CUSTNO" to a numeric "12355" it kicks out that line. I have the EXCEL file set to general and I have the VB program set at a Cstr(rs.fields("CUSTNO"
) but it is still not reading it as a string. Any suggestions?