>How do you use the wizard to import Dates from Excel? I have copied the EXCEL Date column and formated it to one of each of the following: Text, Date, Numeric and imported them using the Import Wizard. The ECEL date of 09/06/02 comes into VFP as 08/22/02 as an example no matter what I do. What is the secret?

For Excel5, the value is Numeric: Carry the different between the date and
{^1899/12/30}

What you can do:

IMPORT FROM abc.xls TYPE XL5
SELECT abc.a AS ORDER_ID, {1900/1/1}-2+abc.b AS ORDER_DATE, .... ;
  FROM abc WHERE RECNO()#1 
  INTO TABLE dbfABC

Since the First Record is Field header information, you don't need it at all.