Glad it worked, Mark !
Thanks for the feedback ..
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"Mark A" wrote in message
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Thanks. That works - though I don't really understand why.
It is a shame that whatever formatting Excel applied when you run "Text to
Columns" doesn't persist in the worksheet. i.e. when I paste in new data
from
Excel I have to run Text to Columns again. Not a big problem - I have
created
a macro to do this and stuck a button in the menu bar.

Thanks verymuch for the v. quick reply!