>>Yes, VFP is importing the titles from the excel sheet as the first record an then the values. I went to the excel sheet and set all cells to 'Text' since most of them were marked as general or numeric but I'm till having the problem.
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>Okay, next idea is a painful one :) Make a copy of the Excel file, and start deleting columns until the import problem disappears. Then analyze the bad column to see what is peculiar about it...

Thanks a lot for your assistance. Perry Forman has already gone through this and is handing me a solution. Message 240300 on this same thread.

I was thinking about making excel to SAVE AS DBF. Any ideas about how to do it using automation?

Oscar