[RESOLVED] Excel numberformat !?

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i am transferring data from a vb.net datagridview control to a new instance
of excel (early binding)

here i am creating a excel instance

Dim Exl_App As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
        Dim Exl_Wbook As Workbook
        Exl_Wbook = Exl_App.Workbooks.Add
        Dim Exl_Sheet As Worksheet
        Dim ExL_Sheet2 As Worksheet

here i am formatting the cells & transferring data

.Range("e1:e65000").Cells.NumberFormat = "Text"
            .Range("g1:g65000").Cells.NumberFormat = "Text"
            .Range("h1:h65000").Cells.NumberFormat = "Text"
            .Range("i1:i65000").Cells.NumberFormat = "Text"

but the out put in the excel file is (please refer to the attachment sheet2)

the date type data out put is appearing like

T2011xt
T2011xt
T2011xt

what is wrong i am doing here please