I have an Excel spreadsheet with e-mail addresses: column A is the user, column B is the domain. I need to concatenate them. Problem arises when I hit a compuserve address: set addLeft to value of cell 1 of row i of used range of active sheet set addRight to value of cell 2 of row i of used range of active sheet display dialog addLeft --> 12345.6789 display dialog (addLeft & "@" & addRight) as string --> [log in to unmask] Applescript treats the number as floating point when converting it to a string??? The column in Excel is formatted as string. -- Bill Steele [log in to unmask]