Date field merge in Corel from Excel

Data merge - use this daily 

Corel X5 Excel 2016

today require date field merge (don't merge dates very often)
However all data display in Corel as Date Time - fields in Corel are date _ if I convert to general or tex the date displays as a number not date

If I use the same file to merge in word results are as expected - ie date field displays as a date

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