Hi there

Here's another I just can't understand.
I am importing a CSV line by line, then using TextToColumns to delimit the
data.
This works fine, leaving dates in column 'A' often in the format 03-Sep-06.
I perform some autofilters on that column, then copy the visible cells to
another sheet
using:
Sheets("Working").UsedRange.Copy Destination:=Sheets("Temp").Range("A1")

Somwehere along the line, Excel parses the date and results in a timeserial
that corresponds to 09/12/06 - such that no matter what date formatting I
use, the date will always be wrong.

Having stepped through the code isolating parts, the code in question is:
Columns(1).TextToColumns Destination:=Range("A1"), DataType:=xlFixedWidth,
FieldInfo:=Array(0, 4), TrailingMinusNumbers:=True

The Array(0,4) should specify DMY format, yet it swaps the day / month as
mentioned.

I had inserted this line as the only means I know of to ensure that all
entries in a given column are treated as dates (formatting the column won't
touch string entries etc)... anyone have any useful tips regarding this
action ? Any way of avoiding this for dates where the month / day are
reversible ? I have Date columns with the Date values to the Left AND Right -
I used the above code to convert them to Dates lying to the right... maybe
this is an unnecessary step.
How do you instruct Excel that all values in a column should be treated as
Dates (I had assumed that if this scenario were true the values would align
together on right).

Pointers appreciated