I have never had any problems with numeric columns that I can recall. But you may have to change the SET POINT and/or SET SEPARATOR values before and after the Append. And I usually use Append instead of Import since then I can control the structure instead letting VFP guess.

If that doesn't fix your problem, can you elaborate?

>Hi,
>I use Excel 2000.
>on the other hand, I found that the numeric format column have error after
>using the IMPORT and APPEND FROM to the DBF.
>
>Derek