Mark Simms
marksimms at verizon.net
Mon Oct 24 15:25:24 CDT 2011
As you are aware, Excel employs the Variant data structure.....which allows any cell to be a long, string, date, double, boolean, etc. Converting your columns to strings may be a crude workaround, but of course, this creates other issues as well. > Oh, did I say that was the worst part ...? lol. The underlying table is > a linked excel file so I don't think there is anything I can do about it?!!