Further to my earlier post …

A friend and I discussed the problem of sorting digital images on a PC
in true chronological order, which a real pain when you have more than
one digital camera.

Windows will use the Date Created or Date Modified, though XP allows
for a special selection called Date Picture Taken (if available). This
is a little awkward to get at, and some applications do not use it
(ie, a 3rd party application, like PolyView's Thumbnails which default
to the Windows standard sort-by-Name, I believe ...).

The image Exif DateTime gives the true creation time, and ensures that
images can be sorted in "true" chronological order (as determined by
the cameras' internal clocks).

This problem was the catalyst for developing an Excel spreadsheet
solution. It is not meant to be all-singing, all-dancing ... it's just
a pleasant way to solve the above issue!

The key to the whole exercise is a quick & reliable self-contained VBA
method to extract the Exif DateTime, and then methods to sort, rename
& copy easily follow ...

If anyone is interested, let me know ...

Mark