hey and thanx for reading my post..
hmm. i'm using "Response.Contenttype="application/vnd.ms-excel" to display a recordset in Excel (inside IE).

Only problem left is that (annoying) Excel are automatically removing the Zero's (0's) in a column which displays social security number. Anyone know a work-around ?

Terje.

is it leading zeroes that it is removing?? if so I would recommend writting the SSN out with single quotes around it. This way excel will treat it like a text value and not a numeric value