No contest on the above...


I've re-read the OPs ? and _guess_ I now think he probably was meaning
retrieved from a cell and therefore already in Excel so knowing which way the
cell is formatted answers the question.

Exactly my point; - using a textual format eliminates the ambiguity!

Q: How did you get the underlined text?

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Garry

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