Most likely you have character field, and Excel does not want to recognize it as numbers when applying NumberFormat. Either reformat it on FoxPro site before importing, or use numeric fields.


>Hi everybody,
>
>I set NumberFormat = "000-00-0000" I have SSN field data as character 9.
>It shows all the numbers without dashes despite the NumberFormat. Should I transform the value myself when I prepare data?
>
>Thanks in advance.