correct. under version 2002, there is no "international" option in Excel.

The wired thing is that the data is wrong via double-clicking to open the
file, but data is correct via "File-Open-import wizard" to open the file.
These two phenomena happened on client's machine concurrently. I tried to
reproduce the problem on many machines with same OS and office version, but
unlucky.

"Harald Staff" wrote:

The Internatiopnal option was introduced with Excel XP (2002).

Best wishes Harald

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Within Excel check the setting under <Tools<Options<International
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