ADO guru question: different datatypes in same column?

Hi there all ye

I have an Excel spreadsheet with different datatypes in the same column i.e.
numeric values like 123 456.789
string values like "abc"
date values like 2001-01-01
etc.

When I create a ADODB.recorset from this spreadsheet all
values with different datatype from the data type of the
value in the second row is set to NULL. (First row defines
column names.)

This sucks.

I can get around it by making all data into strings by
adding a ' before the actual data on the the spreadsheet.
I can then convert the data back with VB to whatever
type it is supposed to be. However, this is not a very neat
solution since the spreadsheet will be less user friendly.

So my question is:
Is it possible to create a ADODB.recordset form an Excel
spreadsheet with different datatypes in the same column
without data beeing converted to NULL values?

If so - how do you do it?

Thanks heaps to anyone who can help me.

/JT