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Sep 10, 2009

What I have is a double quoted, comma delimited text file that is created from an external application, every now and again we need to open the file to make corrections and this is easier if we open it via Excel using the delimiter options, the problem is when saving the file as a csv it removes the double quotes, however I have found some vba coding that adds the double quotes back, which works great, but it changes the format of the date fields from what the original file had from 09-Aug-2009 to 09/08/2009.

I suspect this may be because the file is opened before the double quotes are added and excel changes the format.

Is there any code I can add that will stop the date format from changing ...

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