Sound like the format on the Excel sheet is set to currency!
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Bernard V Liengme
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"Judy" wrote in message
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I constantly export data from access into excel worksheets but the figure
columns always show a '£' sign even though the format of the access field
is
set to 'standard'.

Does anyone know how to resolve this.