As Al alluded to- I had a similiar problem two years ago. The client was opening up a DBF in Excel modifying and resaving it. Really screwed us up. IN our case they added a field with the smae name as an exisitng field. Fox (2.6) really loved that!!!

Ken

>I have a client that has an application I wrote 2 years ago. She called and said "we got a problem". I asked her to e-mail me her data and it turns out that in a table the holds her check registry(an accounting package), the field that holds the description has changed from being a character field to a numeric field? How can that append?