move_date_format

Hi friends...

Iam down loanding one internal table data...into excel file with gui_download....

it contains no. of fields including onwe date field...

i filled that field like this...

move: tab-date1 to itab-date1.

before this i declared data: itab-date1(10) type c.

here my problem is iam getting.... 05/18/2008(today) format for...list out put which is goingto be display with tab-date1 field...

but..... in excel iam getting...

like...

20080518....which is from itab-date1...

how to get correct format from itab-date1 field....

Thank you,

Naveen