Hi- hope someone can help with this pretty specific problem- I have just
upgraded to a new version of excel (2003), and have an issue with when I am
opening text files in excel.
If I open the txt value manually, I have no problem, all cells with dates in
them are recognised as dates.
When I open this file and bring it in using VBA, it recognises some of the
dates as text, and so screws my calculations.
I'm pretty sure that this is because it tries to bring them in in american
format, but has a problem when what it sees as the month goes above 12 (i.e
it brings it in as mm/dd/yyyy whereas the file is dd/mm/yyyy but this only
causes a problem if dd12).
Of course I can correct this using date value or whatever, but I don;t want
to have to- is there a simple solution?

any help would be massively appreciated.
thanks in advance