>Thank you for your quick answer, >am just trying to import the excell sheet to a dbf file so that I will be able to do certain conversion. >I used import the foxprox9 stop responding >and then I used append from filename.xls type xls and still is not working >sincerely I do not know where is the problem >thank you foryour help >I am attaching the excell sheet >if you can help me it will be great >Thank you