When I used this option, I saw that my field names were "cut" to have only 10 characters each. So I started with two field names "transformation" and it's plural form "transformations". Even though they were of different types (char and num respectively) they were both changed to "transforma" and I now had two fields with the same name.

My advice is this, change all your field names to fit the 10 character limit and, even though I don't recommend it, change them back to their original names once in the dbf.

Hope I've been of some use, Stephane.

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>I keep getting "Field name is a duplicate or invalid " when I try to open a dbf created from the 'save as dbase III' option in excel.
>The help on this says :
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>A field in the table already has that name.
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>You used a space, or one of ., ", /, \, [, ], :, |, <, >, +, =, ;, *, or ? in the field name.
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>but nowhere can I find this. Any ideas?