OK, so take a look at this file in a text editor, like Notepad.exe. After "camel light" is says "3-4". But if you open it in Excel, it appears as "4-Mar". Do you have the option "write as text" selected for these items? I noticed if I put single quotes around the 3-4 in the text editor and then saved the files, that Excel would pull the values up properly, but with the quotes included. Double quotes seemed to have no effect. Seems odd that I've never heard of this before. Hmm.