From: Love U Ruby Date: 2013-02-13T16:05:44+09:00 Subject: Re: Issue with Excel column values read. David Mullet wrote in post #1096585: Wowwww... Really nice, I never have thought about the things,you pointed out here. Definitely I will give it a try. > Use the Text property of a cell, rather than the Value property. > > For example, change... > > wbs.cells(rows,8).value > > ...to... > > wbs.cells(rows,8).Text > > The Value property returns the underlying value as stored by Excel (for > numbers this is a decimal). > > The Text property returns the value as it is displayed. > > David > > http://rubyonwindows.blogspot.com/search/label/excel -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.