For some reason every time I Transer a date stored in a variable over to Excel, it changes the date around but keeps the dd/mm/yyyy, for example, 3rd of october 2004 would send from vb as 03/10/2004, but in excel will display as 10th march 2004 10/03/2004. Is this a known issue? can it be solved? any help would be much apprieciated.